How to solve WordPress login hack attempts Today I will show you how one way how to stop wordpress login hack attempts without using a plugin. This is my second post about WordPress ive decided to publish (you can see the first one here). Is not strictly about wordpress though and can be adapted for… Read More »
How to embed a tweet in a wordpress post This post has a very simple aim.. to show you how to embed a tweet in a wordpress post. This helps make your wordpress blog posts more interactive and useful for your visitors who use the popular social networking platform Twitter. Although this may not seem… Read More »
MySQL get list of WordPress tags for a specific post In this tutorial I will show you how to get a list of tags for a specified post ID from your MySQL (or other) database. WordPress can be quite complex at times, and personally I found this one quite a challenge, so ended up searching… Read More »
Bash remove duplicate lines without sorting One of the most frequent requirements I face when bash scripting, is to extract a column of data from an input file, find each unique value from within a number of rows, and then do something with that output. The standard way I achieve that is something like this… Read More »
Background Bash Script – Push a running bash script to continue in the background Background Bash Script – Running a bash script in the background is a simple task using nohup, but what is less known is how to force an already running script to continue in the background freeing up your terminal for other… Read More »
Download Youtube video – CentOS At some time or another everyone has wanted to download Youtube video to have locally. From Linux (or Windows or Mac) this is a fairly simple task thanks to youtube-dl !! Easy installation, fast, flexible Installation of youtube-dl To install the latest youtube-dl, check the latest url from their site… Read More »
There is a load of php scripts and methods to enable any half competent developer to post a message to their Twitter profile.
However I wanted to post to twitter from a BASH SCRIPT !!!
Bash has a number of what they term ‘bash special variables’. Here is a list of the most useful ones I use fairly regular in scripts :
PDF Utility PDFTK makes it easy to merge any number of pdf files into a single output file. First here is how to merge 2 specific files :
PDF files are not the easiest beasts to handle at the best of times, however there is a tool called pdftk which is freely available to make your life a lot easier!
PDFTK has the functionality to split, merge, watermark, and a variety of other useful tasks to make handling data much easier.
Version 2.02 is the most complete and flexible version and can be installed on Red Hat or Centos like this :