Quick macOS terminal command to batch remove user password from PDF

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    • the easiest way to get qpdf installed is to have homebrew installed; just go to https://brew.sh and follow the instructions there

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    • I was looking for a way on macOS to batch remove the user password from a bunch of PDF files that had the same password. I found the easiest way was to use qpdf with the following command:

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