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 command. Continue reading
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
ImageMagick 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
One 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
Last 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 my age, then you may remember the mighty Commodore PET computer.
Some of us were put into a program to learn BASIC programming. The first program we were taught to write made a rocket ship fly up the screen by using Print statements. It looked something like this: Continue reading