Popular recipes tagged "utilities" but not "commandline"

Batch conversion of text files to PDF with fileinput and xtopdf (Python)

2016-11-07T20:28:01-08:00

Python recipe 580715 by Vasudev Ram (batch, batchmode, conversion, files, pdf, pdfwriter, python, text, text_processing, utilities, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to do a batch conversion of the content of multiple text files into a single PDF file, with a) an automatic page break after the content of each text file (in the PDF output), b) page numbering, and c) a header and footer on each page.

It uses the fileinput module (part of the Python standard library), and xtopdf, a Python library for conversion of other formats to PDF.

xtopdf is available here: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

and a guide to installing and using xtopdf is here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html

Here is a sample run of the program:

python BTTP123.pdf text1.txt text2.txt text3.txt

This will read the content from the three text files specified and write it into the PDF file specified, neatly formatted.

A simple Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text (Bash)

2017-03-25T14:12:25-07:00

Bash recipe 580766 by Vasudev Ram (bash, documentation, man, script, shell, utilities, utility).

It's a shell script that lets you save the man pages for one or more Unix commands, system calls or other topics, to text files, after cleaning up the man command output to remove formatting meant for emphasis, printing, etc.

More information here:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-save-cleaned-up.html

A command-line musical alarm clock (Python)

2016-12-30T19:06:32-08:00

Python recipe 580739 by Vasudev Ram (alarm, audio, clock, multimedia, music, playsound, python, time, utilities, utility).

This is a simple musical alarm clock in Python. You pass a command-line argument specifying the time in minutes after which the alarm should go off. When that time arrives, it plays a musical sound.

Trap KeyboardInterrupt and EOFError for graceful program termination (Python)

2016-11-13T20:17:03-08:00

Python recipe 580718 by Vasudev Ram (ascii, error, exception, handler, shutdown, terminate, utilities, utility).

This recipe shows how to trap the KeyboardInterrupt and EOFError Python exceptions so that they do not crash your program. As a vehicle to show this, it uses a small Python utility that shows the ASCII code for any ASCII character you type.

Image Resizer (Python)

2016-05-22T16:45:52-07:00

Python recipe 580663 by FB36 (image, images, utilities, utility). Revision 2.

Image resizer/converter command-line utility.

FileSpec: Set it, forget it, reuse it (Python)

2016-03-08T05:49:16-08:00

Python recipe 580618 by Jack Trainor (filename, utilities).

Python provides good utilities for transforming filenames, but they are tedious to use and clutter up the source code.

FileSpec offers one-stop shopping to convert a file path to every component you might want to know, reuse, or transform.

Shortcut Utility (Python)

2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00

Python recipe 579041 by FB36 (desktop, directories, directory, file, files, tkinter, ui, utilities, utility).

I dislike filling my desktop with shortcut icons in Windows. This code enables creating shortcuts in a CSV file.

Create module dependency graph (Python)

2010-05-07T11:29:03-07:00

Python recipe 577222 by Noufal Ibrahim (dependecies, graphs, utilities).

The following snippet will dump the module dependencies in a format that can be interpreted by the dot program distributed along with graphviz. You can use it like below to see the dependency graph for the asynchat module for example. (the program is saved as grapher.py)

python grapher.py asynchat | dot -Tpng | display

A screenshot is available here http://twitpic.com/1lqnmh