Today I got a new VPS… well great but now I need to install a bunch of new packages and libraries and helper apps. how do I remember it all? did I have python 2.6 or 2.7? not to mention which boost libs did I install? well here.s a couple of ways to deal with…
Whats WebDav: Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers. Whats Box.com [.net]: Box.com is cloud-storage service like Dropbox, SugarSync and google drive. After uploading your various documents, media files,…
Problem : I need to take a bunch of mixed images of jpg and png origin and convert them to a PDF file. Solution : convert all to one file type, then convert them all to a single PDF and THEN shrink the PDF to a normal size…. tools needed : imagemagick, ghostscript, bash/zsh and…
Linux Code snippet. Ever wated to batch create thumbnails? “musclecarr” posted this bash script to create thumbnails of all images of a specific type. It uses imagemagick and specifically the convert command. minor modifications done to it and comments added for easy understanding, here it is : #!/bin/bash # take argument or use current dir…
find /home/user/somedir -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \; This CAN and WILL destroy all your data and eat your small { dog | cat | turtle | parrot } if you aren’t careful! ALWAYS check the path twice and then check it again before using.
I have close to 3000 images in a folder and needed to know exactly how many for a stupid bet I made. I dont feel like counting them! there must be something in the linux world to make this easier…. well there is. simple extension of the ls command. my directory is called images but…
