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Adding border to images.
2010/07/18
A very simple script to add border to images : ** ** […] *for i in .jpg; do montage -geometry 720×576 -background black -quality 100 $i conv-$i; done […] This is one line that you can …
6700 free and redistributable fonts for Linux.
2010/06/25
Today I was searching for some good fonts for my desktop running Fedora 11 – Leonidas. In my quest to find the required fonts that I would liked, I reached some good sites so just thought would share …
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents
2010/06/17
Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents $ tput smcup; echo ”Doing some things…”; sleep 2; tput rmcup Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to …
List of commands you use most often
2010/06/16
$ history | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk …
GCompris — Kids games and learning activities and hacks.
2010/06/15
I found a nice game and learning software for Kids yesterday. It is called <a href="http://gcompris.net/" target="_blank">GCompris. Details of the software as in their …
Biggest free shell account list
2010/06/09
Biggest shell account list is <a href="http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml" target="_blank">here.
Determine what process is listening on a port on Solaris, without lsof
2010/06/08
$ for x in `ptree | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{print …
SQuirrel SQL for Graphical interface to Oracle/MySQL and loads of other database – OSS and free.
2010/06/04
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category SQuirrel <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sql" title="SQL" …
Auto Adjust Photo color and contrast in Windows, Mac and Linux.
2010/05/19
<a href="http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html" target="_blank">Auto Adjust Photo is a tool that is very helpful if you are looking at quickly adjusting the photo. This tool does …
Linux EBook
2010/05/18
My own book.. Though not too good but might be useful. <a class="aligncenter" title="Ebook" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/LinuxBook.pdf.bz2">Free Ebook …
Delete all files in a folder that don’t match a certain file extension
2010/04/30
$ rm !(.foo|.bar|*.baz) Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like. […] <a …
Lock the hardware eject button of the cdrom
2010/04/29
$ eject -i 1 This command will lock the hardware eject button of your cdrom drive. Some uses are: 1: If you have a toddler and has discovered the cdrom button 2: If you are carrying a laptop in a bag …