Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Save multiple images to a PDF in Linux

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Place all the images you want in the PDF into a new directory and in the console run the following from within that directory:

convert * mynewfile.pdf

The powerful convert command uses the ImageMagick library which can be installed (in Ubuntu) with the following console command:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

How to delete all .svn directories

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In Linux, if you want to remove all .svn files and folders within a directory, navigate to the directory in your terminal and use:

find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

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Preload to make Linux faster

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

If you’re running Linux you’ll be aware that it’s crazyfastâ„¢ already. Want even more speed? Get Preload. If you’re running Ubuntu you can get it by opening your console and typing sudo apt-get install preload.