Category Command line Fu

Warning: This is not the hardest way to create a word cloud from pdf-documents, but it’s up there. Say you have directory containing pdf documents: $ ls a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf …

SYSTEM_PROFILER Show a very long list of details about your machine and kernel (verbose output) system_profiler

Found this nice post on good commands to know appart from the obvious top Basically they are top and vm_stat 5

I have a text file containing article references. It looks like this – Miller HJ (2004) Tobler’s First Law and spatial analysis. Ann Assoc Am Geogr 94:284–289. – Onsrud H, ed (2007) Research and Theory in Advanced Spatial Data Infrastructure…

The following assumes a linux command line to be present (or Mac OS X terminal in my case). I want to wrangle text from the internet, turn it into JSON data, and ultimately stick it in CouchDB. Here I’m trying…