2006 December Archive at Coolkevmen

Use set ftp:list-options -a command to force lftp to download hidden files (like .htaccess and so on).
Use --force parameter to allow auto-deletion of multiple outdated rdiff-backup increments.
Defensive incremental backup policy: keep 32 last backups instead of 32 days of backup.

I also added a debug mode as suggested by Sacha.

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Convert several files from a format to another:

convert img_*.bmp img_%04d.png
Resize images of the current folder to progressive jpeg. Resized images will not be greater than 600×600, but the aspect ratio will be respected:

convert -resize 600x600 -sharpen 1 -interlace Line * pict%04d.jpg
Create a PNG image of a rendered html page:

kwebdesktop 1024 768 capture.png http://www.linuxfr.org
Remove all metadata of a JPEG file:

exiftool -all= image.jpg

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Text replacement:

sed 's/string to replace/replacement string/g' original-file.txt > new-file.txt
In place charset transcoding:

recode utf-8..latin-1 utf8text.txt
Get the current date in english:

env LC_TIME=en date +"%a %b %d %Y"
Concatenate all PDF documents of the current folder into one big file. This also have the nice side effect of removing all DRMs :

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=bigfile.pdf ./*
VIM: no autoindent on paste

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