Find & delete

Sometime it happen that  I need to find all certain type of file or directory from a folder and sub folders and delete it. An example is if you have to copy a project under svn and you want to clean all folder from “.svn” folder. Via linux shell: $ find /absolute/or/relative/path  -type d -name ".svn" | xargs rm -r If you have to delete file or folder with name first letter “A”: $ find...

Imagemagick, mass resize photos

I use Imagemagick when I have a lot of pictures that need to be resized for being used on a website. From a shell, the command for resize a picture is: $ mogrify -resize <width_pixel>x<height_pixel> file.jpg For resize all pictures inside a folder, via shell move to the folder and give: $ mogrify -resize <width_pixel>x<height_pixel> * Some time pictures are in more sub-folder, and is not very...