In a previous Bash to Basics, I already showed how to print output to the terminal with the echo command. Today I’m going to show how to read input from the user and store it in a variable. We can then use that variable to print the text back to the terminal with the echo …
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Today I’ve got another ImageMagick trick for you. It’s a variation on the demo in the documentation for the convert command. With this type of command, you can create your own text images with drop shadows. Let’s give it a try.
Continue reading Create Text Images with ImageMagickImageMagick is a free utility that is installed by default in many Linux distributions. It provides a command line interface to perform a multitude of image manipulation operations. In this post I’ll show how to resize an image.
Continue reading Resize Images in Linux with ImageMagickOne of the great new features of Firefox 3.5 is the native support of the Ogg video format. If you don’t know, Ogg is a Free and Open Source video format from Xiph.org.
Continue reading View Ogg Videos in Firefox 3.5Last time in Bash to Basics I showed how to print text to the terminal with the echo command. This got me thinking about the first program I wrote when I was in fourth grade. I was fortunate enough to be in a school district that had computers in the early ’80s. If you’re around …
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