Tag: Script

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Copy-pasting files in the Linux terminal

The clipboard cut, copy and paste functions can be a great timesaver when organizing files.

But there didn't seem to be an obvious way to use those functions with the command line in Linux while targeting the main clipboard of the desktop environment such that files can be transferred between …

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Making sharp and compact PDFs from scans

I've found that document scanner software rarely generates good PDF files when scanning plain text documents. The PDFs are often big in file size, with artifacts and may not be sharp and contrasty enough for a clear reprint. The issue is that lossy compression similar to JPEG is used in …

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hashstress - Hardware stress test using hash calculations

This post is about a little script I wrote named: hashstress. It's intended for stressing and testing the correctness of disk I/O, cache, memory and processing subsystems for an extended period of time. The basic idea is to generate files with random content and repeatedly calculate hash checksums verifying …

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