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Reading from a PDF on the command line

February 10th, 2010
Posted in Blog

PDFs are some awesomely clunky files, but they’re also very useful and probably won’t go away any time soon. If you dare trying to read the text out of a PDF at the command line with `cat` you’ll likely get all kinds of gibberish, like so: The following isn’t a perfect solution as there really is [ READ MORE ]

vi, command line editor, tips & tricks

October 25th, 2009
Posted in Blog

I know some people prefer awesome editors like Smultron, Notepad++, or BBedit to edit source code and simple text documents but there are still those who love spending there time in a shell. By that I mean, a UNIX shell (linux, bsd, darwin, unix, w/e), not a hermit shell. The point is, I’m one of [ READ MORE ]

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