Really Handy Terminal Commands

On January 27, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

Here’s a list of several terminal commands that are perhaps unfamiliar to many new-to-Linux users but could be really handy when used properly. Kill a running application by its name killall [app_name]   Display disk space usage: df –h Locate the installation directories of a program: whereis [app] Mount an .iso file: mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/cdrom [...]

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How To: Open Protected PDF in ubuntu

On December 2, 2009, in Ubuntu, by dipinkrishna

Use two simple commands to convert a protected pdf into an unprotected pdf. Here in this example i assume the protected pdf file name to be ‘protected.pdf’. Now open your terminal and type. $ pdftops protected.pdf out.ps $ pstopdf out.ps out.pdf The out.pdf will be your unprotected PDF. If you don’t have pstopdf and pdftops [...]

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