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Commands using file

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for h in host1 host2 host3 host4 ; { scp file user@$h:/destination_path/ ; }
2009-02-16 01:02:35
User: andrewtayloruk
Functions: file scp
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Copy something to multiple SSH hosts with a Bash loop

Just a quick and simple one to demonstrate Bash For loop. Copies 'file' to multiple ssh hosts.

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for file in *.png; do convert "$file" "$(basename $file .png).gif"; done
2009-02-15 23:39:08
User: brettalton
Functions: file
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Convert PNG to GIF

(relies on 'imagemagick')

Convert all .png files to .gif. This can also go the other way if you reverse the file extensions in the command, e.g.:

for file in *.gif; do convert "$file" "$(basename $file .gif).png"; done

If the file is named 'example1.png' it will be named 'example1.gif' when it is complete.

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for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert -verbose -colorspace RGB -resize 800 -interlace none -density 300 -quality 80 $file `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`; done
2009-02-15 23:27:43
User: brettalton
Functions: file sed
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Convert PDF to JPG

(relies on 'imagemagick')

This command will convert all .pdf files in a directory into a 800px (wide or height, whichever is smaller) image (with the aspect ratio kept) .jpg.

If the file is named 'example1.pdf' it will be named 'example1.jpg' when it is complete.

This is a VERY worthwhile command! People pay hundreds of dollars for this in the Windows world.

My .jpg files average between 150kB to 300kB, but your's may differ.

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split -b 1k file ; cat x* > file
2009-02-08 23:10:18
User: abcde
Functions: cat file split
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Split and join with split and cat.

`split -b 1k file` splits files into 1k chunks. Rejoin them with `cat x* > file`.

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file !$
2009-02-06 15:41:08
User: leprasmurf
Functions: file
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Use last argument of last command

Bash shortcut to work with the last argument of your last command

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fsutil file createnew FILENAME filesize(inbytes)
2009-02-05 17:36:33
User: archlich
Functions: file
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Create files of arbitrary size in Windows

This command creates a file of arbitrary size in a windows environment.

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