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Add cut/crop marks to pdf with imagemagick

I have a pdf file which is getting generated with Inkscape from SVG and processed with ImageMagick. Now the PDF is a perfect DINA4 @300 DPI How can I add some marks around it? My marks should look like this: http://cl.ly/033g3t2h0U0f/A4_crop.png And I need to place this over the pdf with 3mm to overlap so it&…

Convert number from text file

I have a file: id name date 1 paul 23.07 2 john 43.54 3 marie 23.4 4 alan 32.54 5 patrick 32.1 I want to print names that start with “p” and have an odd numbered id My command: grep “^p” filename | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 2 | …. result: paul patrick Answer Awk can do it all:

Get specific column from CSV in Bash script

I have a csv with nearly a hundred of column. I am writing a bash script to get only few of those column. CSV: I did some research and found this: But it requires to put ALL the column (92 in my case…) I can’t select want I want. So I try another solution: It cannot work because of the

Linux filesystem nesting and syscall hooking

Using 2.6.32 linux kernel, I need to use a specific filesystem on a block device partition and I wan’t to hook open/write/read/close (and few others) syscalls to read/write, in an other fashion that the specific filesystem, what should be written on this partition. It would be only for this partition, o…

Grouping and deleting Files

I have to come up with a solution to delete all files but the newest 2 in a directory stucture of our owncloud. The be exact – its the file versioning folder. There are files in one folder with the following structure: Filename.Ext.v[random_Number] The hard part is that there are different files in one …