Tag: bash scripting
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Pipes: Everyday Plumbing with Shell Script
A pipe redirects output from one program or file to the input another program or file. This makes scripting Unix commands possible and incredibly powerful. But like anything powerful, it takes time to develop the skill to get there. It is so useful, it is sometimes hard to express to people only used to looking…
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Modern Picture Management?
I like to run a thumbnailer across most of my photos so I have little copies to send around, and I mod them so that they look distinctly different from the full resolution source files. I like to use gwenview to flip and rotate them. Gwenview can export to FB and email so that makes…