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  1. Tip of the week 24

    mar. 24 septembre 2013

    Easily assemble, merge, extract your pdf files under linux with pdftk

    pdftk, is a useful command line utility that allow to manipulate your pdf files. You can install it through your favorite package manager (example under Fedora)

    natjohan# yum install pdftk
    

    The syntax of pdftk is very simple :

    pdftk <input_files_seperate_by_spaces ...
  2. Tip of the week 23

    dim. 04 août 2013

    Search and replace a character string in multiple files with sed

    `Sed`, Stream Editor is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text.

    Here is a simple and useful example : replace the character string 'priority 300' by 'bandwidth priority percent 10' in all .txt files in our current directory

    find ...
  3. Tip of the week 22

    lun. 15 juillet 2013

    Power management and optimizations with powertop

    Powertop is a little utilitie that allow you to reduce your computer power consumption. This is an interesting soft for laptop owner, to install it, simply use you favorite package manager

    natjohan# yum install powertop
    

    Now, just launch powertop command with root privileges, the ...

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