OS X: Files Skipping Trash And Deleting Immediately | You may have seen this in OS X when trying to delete files: “This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action.” Deleting and recreating the .Trash directory will generally solve this. Here’s a quick guide! 1. Crack open a terminal: Applications > Utilities > Terminal 2. Next, remove the existing Trash directory
Combine PDFs in Linux
Combine PDFs in Linux | Use ghostscript to easily combine multiple PDFs into one PDF document from the command line. First make sure you have ghostscript installed: sudo apt-get install ghostscript Here is the magic command. Here place the order of existing PDFs in the order you wish them to appear in the combined document. gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
OS X Software Update From Command Line
OS X Software Update From Command Line | How can I run Software Update from the command line in OS X? This command will update OS X via the terminal: sudo softwareupdate -i -a The output will look something like this: $ sudo softwareupdate -i -a Password: Software Update Tool Copyright 2002-2009 Apple Checking packages… Installing Waiting for other installations to complete… Validating
Batch Resize from Command Line
Batch Resize from Command Line | How can I batch resize photos in Linux via the command line? Yet again ImageMagick is your friend. With one little command you can resize an entire directory of photos. First, install ImageMagick if you haven’t already: sudo apt-get install imagemagick Then simply run this command below, altering as desired: mogrify -resize 1024×768 *.jpg You
