Find duplicates in a folder and convert them to symlinks

Hi, Duplicate files waste precious space on your computer’s hard drive. Here a terminal approach with a script to vonvert them to symlinks: first install the dependencies: Code: sudo apt-get install rdfind symlinks Now create the blxremoveduplicates script: Code: #!/bin/bash if [[ -d „$1“ && ! -L „$1“ ]] ; Read More

Experimental Compression method for folders

Do show you here a method to compress folders, that is not recommended for very very very very and very important backups, but might be interesting to decrease file size for transferring files etc. etc. : first you need to install lrzip tar xz-utils and sed: Code: sudo apt-get install Read More

Image manipulating with lua/-imlib2

Gmic is a bit complicated, gluas has to many bugs and imagemagick is in C, but you can`t write C programs and need to write your own simple image filter? Then the following instruction might be intertesting if you have ubuntu installed: Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C and Read More