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Show demo of toilet fonts

Lists a sample of all installed toilet fonts Show Sample Output
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```
                                   
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|d|i|g|i|t|a|l|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                          
               o          
 ,   __   ,_        _ _|_ 
/ \_/    /  |  |  |/ \_|  
 \/ \___/   |_/|_/|__/ |_/
                 /|       
                 \|       
```
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find /usr/share/figlet -name *.?lf -exec basename {} \; | sed -e "s/\..lf$//" | xargs -I{} toilet -f {} {}

unixmonkey3987 · 2010-07-13 20:12:54 0
Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively
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3

find . -name \*.pdf -exec pdfinfo {} \; | grep Pages | sed -e "s/Pages:\s*//g" | awk '{ sum += $1;} END { print sum; }'

unixmonkey3987 · 2009-08-10 16:28:24 0
'Fix' a typescript file created by the 'script' program to remove control characters

attribution: Thanks to repellent on perlmonks.org source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=684459
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cat typescript | perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' | col -b > typescript-processed

unixmonkey3987 · 2009-05-28 21:02:17 5

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