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How to get information about an image (picture) from the Linux command-line?

I'm working on a web app and currently migrating some stuff from an old app, but I hate that I have to open an image editor to get some info about images I'm migrating. Things like image dimensions. Is there a command line tool I can use for such…
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How to list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio via cmd line

How do I list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio (or packed size) on osx w/ command line tools?
erikvold
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Quick Method to install DevCon.exe?

As refered to by Microsoft: DevCon (Devcon.exe) is included when you install the WDK, Visual Studio, and the Windows SDK for desktop apps. But these programs take hundreds of MBs, and I don't need the full suite installed on my Windows. Isn't…
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macOS, the command line developer tool missing after updated to Monterey 12.6

My Apple MacBook pro M1 2020 automatically updated to Monterey 12.6 recently. With the update, I have to agree with an Xcode agreement/license. After that, I found both python and git are no longer working properly. I got a pop-up saying: The “git”…
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Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?

I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the transmission-remote utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be impossible, as the transmission-remote -t[torrent-id] -i…
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Command line tool for image conversion

Possible Duplicate: Free command line image converter I need a command line tool for windows which can be used to convert an image from any common format to 24 bit bitmap. I'm writing some programs to do image manipulation in C, but I don't…
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Interactive search of tmux sessions

When switching between tmux sessions with the interactive session menu (-s), you can jump to a specific session by typing the session's numeric or alphabetical index, e.g. (0) + first_session: 1 windows (1) + second_session: 2 windows (2)…
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How can I remove or deactivate the Windows system32/find.exe?

I am trying to make my Windows System as compatible with existing Makefiles as possible. One great step that is missing is replacing the windows "find" (which is the same as grep) with the GNU find (list of all files in directory and sub…
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"wput" multiple files from command line?

You can upload a single file with wput: wput file ftp://username:passwd@ipaddress/file is there a way to upload multiple? Maybe something like: wput {file1,file2} ftp://username:passwd@ipaddress/{file1,file2} Note: I know there are solutions using…
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What's the alternative to "nc -l" for HTTPS?

You can run netcat in the "listen" mode: nc -l 8080 This will listen on localhost:8080, dump everything that comes in to stdout and reply with data from netcat's stdin. This is useful for a quick and easy HTTP testing - you can initiate a request…
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How can I get an interface's bandwidth at any given second from the Linux command line?

I am doing a school project in which I want to get the bandwidth of a network interface at any given second, or some other small increment of time. I need this for a Perl script I am working on. Therefore it needs to be non-interactive and just…
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Getting "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) could not be verified." error when updating from App Store

This is the error message after restarting when doing OS X update: "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10)" could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading. Click Uptade to download and check the update…
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Playing opus files under ubuntu

Opus is a new audio codec standard for audio on the web. Features include: Better compression than mp3/ogg/aac. Good for both music and spoken word. Dynamically adjustable bitrate, audio bandwidth, and coding delay. Good for real-time and…
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Bash Resize Terminal Xterm

I am looking for a universal builtin command that resizes Xterm based terminals. This is some sort of command that won't make a new window, that I won't need to include in the file that these terminals start up with. I want to make an app that will…
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Linux Utility for "Timestamping" Functionality

wget's timestamping functionality ensures it only downloads files that have changed. I'm looking for a linux command-line tool that will recursively compare a directories contents with a saved version (from the last time it ran), and execute an…
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