Sometimes it is convenient and necessary to deal with Microsoft Word doc documents directly on Linux command line. MS Word documents handling directly from the Linux command line is possible with Antiword program. Anti-Word is a small, easy to use and lightweight command line program that can convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, PostScript, and XML.
For example, the following situations Antiword is a very useful tool:
MS Word document can be read from a remote server easily and quickly. Several MS Word documents, texts need to be combined into a single text file. Several MS Word documents have to find some lines of text. MS Word document must be converted to PDF format. Anti Word usage Basic usage, reading Microsoft Word document on console: antiword microsoft_word.doc MS Word document into a text file: antiword microsoft_word.doc > text_file.txt Converting MS Word document to PDF: antiword -a a4 microsoft_word.doc > pdf_file.pdf Note: a4 mean paper size like: a4, letter or legal
Nano is easy to use and lightweight command line text editor for Linux and UNIX systems. Nano text editor can use either the default settings or improve settings with customized nanorc-file. Here are some tips that can improve the usability of Nano. Changes can be made to nanorc file, either locally or to all users or options can be used as command line options.
First is good to check Nano compiled options, with command:
Sometimes it feels that many of the excellent and convenient command-line tools is forgotten, when they are replaced by graphical tools. A good example is the cal program, which is a command-line calendar to Linux and UNIX. It displays a simple calendar in text format.
Cal usage Displays current month calendar on console cal Output:
October 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Displays selected month and year calendar on console cal 11 2012 Output:
Are you looking LibreOffice 5.2/5.1/5.0 Install guide?
This is quick guide to install Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 on Fedora 24/23/22/21/20/19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 7.2/6.8, Red Hat (RHEL) 7.2/6.8 with using Apache OpenOffice original RPM packages.
What’s new in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 release New Sidebar – The Sidebar makes better use of today’s widescreen displays than traditional toolbars Interoperability Improvements DrawObject Improvements/Enhancements Extensions Improvements/Enhancements Many resource leaks were fixed Check full feature list here.
What is Gnome Shell? GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience.
It provides following core interface functions:
Launching applications Opening files Switching between open windows Adding and deleting workspaces Moving windows between workspaces Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications) Providing a flat list of user-account related actions Logging out or switching the session, and stopping or restarting the machine GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a delightful and easy to use experience. For window management and compositing, the Gnome Shell use a Metacity branch called Mutter, which adds Clutter-based compositing to Metacity.
What is Gnome Do? GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts, or sending e-mail. It is similar to the applications GNOME Launch Box (Linux Gnome), KRunner (Linux KDE), Quicksilver (Mac OS X), LaunchBar (Mac OS X) and Butler (Mac OS X).
What is Gnome Do – Docky? Gnome Do – Docky is a nice frontend for GNOME Do (Do) which introduces an entirely new way to use Gnome Do. Docky is a graphical user interface feature that provides the user with a way of launching and switching between applications.
What is MongoDB? MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Written in C++. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide structured schemas and powerful queries).
MongoDB is very interesting document-oriented database, because it has really awesome features:
Document-oriented storage (the simplicity and power of JSON-like data schemas) Dynamic queries Full index support, extending to inner-objects and embedded arrays Query profiling Fast, in-place updates Efficient storage of binary data large objects (e.g. photos and videos) Replication and fail-over support Auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability MapReduce for complex aggregation Commercial Support, Training, and Consulting This guide shows howto install MongoDB 2.4.4 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9. Using MongoDB own YUM repositories. Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL) RPM packages are currently available for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures.
This is guide shows, howto install Adobe Reader (Acrobat PDF Reader) current version 9.5.5 RPM on Fedora 34/33, CentOS 8.3, Red Hat (RHEL) 8.3. This method works on 64-bit architectures.
Check video version of guide: Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Change Root User sudo -i ## OR ## su - 2. Get Adobe Reader RPM package cd /tmp ## English version ## wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm 3a. Install Adobe Reader (acroread) on Fedora 34/33 Note: On x86_64 bit system, 32-bit dependencies is also installed.
Please note: This guide still working normally if you want install Sun/Oracle Java 6, but if you want Java 8 version, then check Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE 8 on Fedora, CentOS/RHEL or if you want Java 7 version, then check Howto Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK/JRE 7 on Fedora, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL).
I just wrote guide, howto install SVN (Subversion) Server on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). No I decided to write more information about SVN Access Control. This guide works if you have installed Apache, Subversion (SVN) and mod_dav_svn on any Linux system, like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, not only Fedora, CentOS or Red Hat (RHEL).
Setup SVN (Subversion) Access Control with Apache and mod_authz_svn 1. Change root user su - ## OR ## sudo -i 2. Add SVN (Subversion) users Use following command:
This is guide, howto Install Oracle (Sun) Java JDK and JRE 8 update 191 (8u191) on Fedora 29/28/27/26, CentOS 7.5/6.10, Red Hat (RHEL) 7.5/6.10.
If you’re looking installation instruction for older Oracle Java versions, then check Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK/JRE 7 on Fedora 24/23/22/21/20/19, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7.2/6.9/5.11 or Install Sun/Oracle Java JDK/JRE 6 on Fedora 20/19/18, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/5.10.
What’s new in Oracle Java 8 Java Programming Language Lambda Expressions, a new language feature Default methods enable new functionality to be added to the interfaces of libraries and ensure binary compatibility with code written for older versions of those interfaces Improved type inference. Collections Classes in the new java.util.stream package provide a Stream API to support functional-style operations on streams of elements Performance Improvement for HashMaps with Key Collisions Security Client-side TLS 1.2 enabled by default Stronger algorithms for password-based encryption SSL/TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) Extension support in JSSE Server SHA-224 Message Digests Enhanced Support for NSA Suite B Cryptography Tools The jjs command is provided to invoke the Nashorn engine The java command launches JavaFX applications The java man page has been reworked The jdeps command-line tool is provided for analyzing class files Java Management Extensions (JMX) provide remote access to diagnostic commands The jarsigner tool has an option for requesting a signed time stamp from a Time Stamping Authority (TSA) Read full info from here.
