ImageMagick and Ubuntu 9.04
Using a command line tool like ImageMagick for image processing may sound a really counter-intuitive thing to do but there’s no need to do everything on a case by case interactive basis. Image resizing and format conversion come to mind here. Helper programs are used behind the scenes too with Ghostscript being used to create [...]
Some things that I’d miss on moving from Linux to Windows
The latest buzz surrounding Windows 7 has caused one observer to suggest that it’s about to blast Linux from the desktop. My experiences might be positive but there are still things that I like about Linux that make me reluctant to consider switching back. Here are a few in no particular order: Virtual Desktops (or [...]
Automating FTP I: UNIX and Linux
Having gotten tired of repeated typing in everything at the prompt of an interactive command line FTP session and doing similar things via GUI route, I started to wonder if there was a scripting alternative and, lo and behold, I found it after a spot of googling. There are various opportunities for its extension such [...]
Filename autocompletion on the command line
The Windows 2000 command line feels an austere primitive when compared with the wonders of the UNIX/Linux equivalent. Windows XP feels a little better and PowerShell is another animal altogether. With the latter pair, you do get file or folder autocompletion upon hitting the TAB key. What I didn’t realise until recently was that continued [...]
Using Korn shell commands in scripts running under the bash shell
This is actually a fairly simple one: just prefix the relevant command with "ksh" like below (in the example below, bash won’t know what to do with the print command otherwise): ksh print "Hello, world!" It’s also useful for running Korn shell scripts under the bash shell as well.