http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/bash/tags/text/2014-10-29T17:38:10-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2014-10-29T17:38:10-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578954-print-selected-text-pages-to-pdf-with-python-selpg/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 578954 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/bash/">bash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reportlab/">reportlab</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/shell/">shell</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_files/">text_files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_processing/">text_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to use selpg, a Linux command-line utility written in C, together with xtopdf, a Python toolkit for PDF creation, to print only a selected range of pages from a text file, to a PDF file, for display or print purposes. The way to do this is to run the selpg utility at the Linux command line, with options specifying the start and end pages of the range, and pipe its output to the StdinToPDF.py program, which is a part of the xtopdf toolkit.</p>

2014-08-12T20:57:39-07:00Barry Walkerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4177147/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578921-simple-bash-text-mode-sine-curve-generator/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 578921 by <a href="/recipes/users/4177147/">Barry Walker</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/apple/">apple</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/bash/">bash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/cygwin/">cygwin</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/graph/">graph</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/macbook_pro/">macbook_pro</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This bash script is a taster for a kids level, audio, text mode, sweep generator. The code just creates a single cycle of a quantised sine curve inside an 80 x 24 bash terminal. This will be the calculator for a sinewave sweep generator from about 50Hz the 12KHz... The code tells you more and the display is in comments at the end...</p>

2013-09-10T21:23:58-07:00Barry Walkerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4177147/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578655-pseudo-3d-effect-in-text-mode/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 578655 by <a href="/recipes/users/4177147/">Barry Walker</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/3d/">3d</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/apple/">apple</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/bash/">bash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/color/">color</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/colour/">colour</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/display/">display</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/macbook_pro/">macbook_pro</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>). </p> <p>This is just a simple DEMO to display a pseudo-3D effect using a bash script. It generates a recessed box and a button and writes some thext inside bot.</p> <p>There are two pieces of code, one for Linux, and one for OSX 10.7.5...</p> <p>The Linux version also works on OSX 10.7.5 but is harder to see so a near identical version using the default OSX terminal colours was craeted instead.</p> <p>You will have to split the two code pieces up yourself to run...</p> <p>Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems...</p> <p>Bazza...</p>

2011-10-18T06:37:52-07:00Graham Poulterhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172291/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577912-remove-utf-8-byte-order-mark-bom-from-text-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 577912 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172291/">Graham Poulter</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unicode/">unicode</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utf8/">utf8</a>). </p> <p>Shell script to removes UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) from text files, where present.</p>