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Found this on a forum. Very useful in converting Tiffs to PDF.


tiff2ps -h 8.5 -w 11 *.tif > tiffs.ps
ps2pdfwr -g7920x6120 tiffs.ps


$ for f in *.tiff; do convert [options] $f $f.ps; done
$ convert *.ps merged.ps
$ ps2pdf merged.pdf

For the first method, you'll need Ghostscript Utilities installed. For the second, you'll need imagemagick installed.

Converting multiple JPG files to PNG

Submitted by hpn on January 24, 2007 - 10:15

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(Quite handy - and you can even go ahead to shrink the two commands to one).


 for A in *.jpg; do convert $A $A.png; done
 rename -v 's/\.jpg.png$/.png/' *.jpg.png

This, on GNU/Linux, with [:http://www.imagemagick.org/|imagemagick].

Renaming multiple files at one go

Submitted by hpn on January 10, 2007 - 15:53

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rename -v 's/\.php5$/.php/' *.php5 (the above command renames .php5 to .php in the present folder)

Setting SCIM as default Input Method on Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy

Submitted by hpn on December 17, 2006 - 12:19

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Many people have asked me about this, so let me point to this wonderful piece of documentation on Ubuntu Wiki. [:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup] and if you're still stuck wondering why GTK IM Module isn't working for you on OpenOffice, there's [:http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_i_can_not_input_with_scim…|another] [:http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation/installation_and_configuratio…|wonderful piece of documentation] for you.

Ubuntu on Pentium D processor

Submitted by hpn on December 3, 2006 - 08:44

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For some new hardware I bought recently, I was almost lost in a maze recompiling the kernel and applying patches for SATA (libata) until I found out that the AMD-Xeon kernel on the Ubuntu repositories work just fine for Pentium-D processor.

Extracting an rpm hpn November 28, 2006 - 06:07

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Its been quite a while since I used fedora or distributions using rpms, but needed to extract [:http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/s390/fonts-kannada-2.0.6-1.no…|this package] on debian to check out the fonts. [:http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-extract-an-rpm-package-without-ins…|A little tip] about a little utility called rpm2cpio helped. Here's what I used:


$ rpm2cpio fonts-kannada-2.0.6-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -idmv

Grisbi

Submitted by hpn on September 25, 2006 - 18:58

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