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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By : Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan
Book Image

Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By: Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan

Overview of this book

Websites, online services, databases, and pretty much every other computer that offers public services runs on Linux. From small servers to clusters, Linux is anywhere and everywhere. With such a broad usage, the demand for Linux specialists is ever growing. For the engineers out there, this means being able to develop, interconnect, and maintain Linux environments. This book will help you increase your terminal productivity by using Terminator, Guake and other tools. It will start by installing Ubuntu and will explore tools and techniques that will help you to achieve more work with less effort. Next, it will then focus on Terminator, the ultimate terminal, and vim, one of the most intelligent console editors. Futhermore, the readers will see how they can increase their command line productivity by using sed, find, tmux, network, autoenv. The readers will also see how they can edit files without leaving the terminal and use the screen space efficiently and copy-paste like a pro. Towards the end, we focus on network settings, Git hacks, and creating portable environments for development and production using Docker. Through this book, you will improve your terminal productivity by seeing how to use different tools.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Shrinking spells and other ImageMagick


In this chapter, we will learn how to process images from the command line. We will start with the most complex and widely used image command line interface processing toolkit called ImageMagick. To install it, run the following:

sudo apt install imagemagick

As you can see, we have already installed it.

Now, let's find some images to process. Let's use the default Ubuntu backgrounds that can be found in /usr/share/backgrounds. Let's copy the backgrounds to another location so that we don't alter our default ones.

We'll take a look at the first image in our list: we can see from ls that it is a JPEG image of 1.6 MB. To open it and see how it looks, let's use the eog (eye of gnome) image viewer:

The first and most important part of knowing how to process an image is knowing what that image actually is. To find this out, ImageMagick comes with a tool called identify. In its simplest form, you have to feed it an image name and it will output information like...