tar and archives manipulation

Archives and their manipulation

Archives files (.tar) allow to group together files and folder and their respective attributes in a single file.

You have to note that the options of tar utility can be passed without the habitual preceding dash -.

General options

The f option (like file) will be used ...

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Delete duplicate messages in Mutt

Duplicated message in a mail box could append when consolidating to mailbox or only by mistake. Since each message is identified by an unique message-id while sending, duplicated message have the same message-id, and therefore can be easily identified.

To identify them with mutt, you need to configure it to ...

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SyncML and Horde

Horde is a groupware framework that combine a lot of PIM data. One of the major problem with PIM data is to get them synchronized among different device. One of the most used to do so is SyncML that allow the two-way synchronization of PIM. Horde embeds a SyncML interface ...

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SOCK proxy for any application (Flash)

Normally the plugins launch inside the web browser are using the proxy settings of the browser. However, the Flash plugin is not taking it into account, if it manage to find a direct Internet connexion. Therefore even your web browsing is going through the proxy all the connexion initiated inside ...

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LanguageTool for Vim

LanguageTool is an Open Source style and grammar proofreading software. It is a good complement to the spell checking program already in use in a lot of software.

It is written in Java and aimed to be integrated easily in OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice as a plugin. But it can also ...

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Xerox Phaser 6010N on Debian 64bits

Xerox gives the drivers only for 32bits Linux boxes. The installation of the drivers under 64bits is not strait forward, therefore here is a small guide on how to install a Xerox Phaser 6010N on Debian Wheezy 64bits (amd64). It should work similarly on any Squeeze box.

For the inpatients ...

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PDF manipulation on command line

Date Tags cli / pdf

Tools

  • Pdftk a general command line tool box
  • PDFjam a set of shell script using the pdfpages LaTeX package for pdf processing

Command examples

Combines different pdf in one (Pdftk)

Fixed list the order of input file is important, combine 1.pdf, 2.pdf and 3.pdf in 123.pdf ...

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Configuration de carte wifi à base de chipset ISL38xx

Pour ces cartes wifi, le driver Prism54 pour linux est nécessaire. Pour fonctionner un firmware doit être charger sur la carte wifi. Les modules Prism54 sont inclus dans le noyau linux, il suffit juste d'installer le firmware.

Le projet Prism54

Il existe plusieurs partie pour faire fonctionner la carte ...

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