Tag: UNIX

Command line mistakes

Here's a nice post by Vivek Gite about ten of his biggest command line mistakes. The comments are good too.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 13, 2010, at 21:03 | No comments

Another contributed Readline keyboard shortcut

Last Wednesday, I was given a very nice response with a great tip to my table of Readline keyboard shortcuts by Luca City. Yesterday, Lance Levine gave me another extremely nice response and another great tip: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 13, 2007, at 23:05 | No comments

eps2eps to the rescue when epstopdf complains of no bounding box

PDFLaTeX doesn't like encapsulated postscript images. If you want to use .eps files with pdflatex, you can convert these files to PDF using Sebastian Rahtz' epstopdf, and then remove all .eps file extensions from the image locations in your .tex source files. Then, the latex command will look for .eps file and the pdflatex command will look for .pdf, .jpg and .png files. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 02, 2007, at 23:03 | No comments