The command below merges two pdf files (file1.pdf and files2.pdf) into one file (output.pdf).
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf
Keyboard problems with NXClient
When the keyboard gets wrongly handled on NXClient sessions, I have found the following
workaround that works in my case.
Go to 'Start >> Settings >> Regional & Accessibility >> Keyboard layout' and change the 'Keyboard model'
to another one. In my case I have fixed my problems using either 'Evdev - managed keyboard' or
'Generic 104-key PC'.
Tricks for the Linux shell
As far as I am aware (so I am sure there are many more tricks!) there are three ways to
get the Linux shell to help you to write a command:
- Start the first few characters of the command line that you intend to write and then
click on TAB for autocompletion. This is very useful. Otherwise, a
double click on TAB gives a list of
possibilities for the completion of the characters that have already been typed into the
shell. I find this really useful when browsing folders looking for files or
when I use a short command line.
- An alternative, to find a command that has been typed
recently, is to use the up-arrow to
retrieve the command that was last used and the one before that and so on.
This is very useful when
the same commands are used more than once in a short period of time.
- The one that I find the most useful is CTRL+r. This looks at the history of
commands typed into the shell. In the shell, type CTRL+r and then
start typing the command that you want to execute. The shell will then match what you are
typing with other command lines that you have typed in the past. I
think this is a life saver
for those complicated command lines that take me a few minutes to figure out, but that
then I can easily retrieve and use again, even after a long period of time.
