I'm trying to convert a HTML file to a PDF by using the Mac terminal.
I found a similar post and I did use the code they provided. But I kept getting nothing. I did not find the output file anywhere when I issued this command:
./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir /home/user ~/Downloads/*.odt
I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.5.
Can someone show me a terminal command line that I can use to convert HTML to PDF?
I'm trying to convert a HTML file to a PDF by using the Mac terminal.
Ok, here is an alternative way to do convert (X)HTML to PDF on a Mac command line. It does not use LibreOffice at all and should work on all Macs.
This method (ab)uses a filter from the Mac's print subsystem, called xhtmltopdf. This filter is usually not meant to be used by end-users but only by the CUPS printing system.
However, if you know about it, know where to find it and know how to run it, there is no problem with doing so:
The first thing to know is that it is not in any desktop user's $PATH. It is in /usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdf.
The second thing to know is that it requires a specific syntax and order of parameters to run, otherwise it won't. Calling it with no parameters at all (or with the wrong number of parameters) it will emit a small usage hint:
$ /usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdf
Usage: xhtmltopdf job-id user title copies options [file]
Most of these parameter names show that the tool clearly related to printing. The command requires in total at least 5, or an optional 6th parameter. If only 5 parameters are given, it reads its input from <stdin>, otherwise from the 6ths parameter, a file name. It always emits its output to <stdout>.
The only CLI params which are interesting to us are number 5 (the "options") and the (optional) number 6 (the input file name).
When we run it on the command line, we have to supply 5 dummy or empty parameters first, before we can put the input file's name. We also have to redirect the output to a PDF file.
So, let's try it:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdf "" "" "" "" "" my.html > my.pdf
Or, alternatively (this is faster to type and easier to check for completeness, using 5 dummy parameters instead of 5 empty ones):
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdf 1 2 3 4 5 my.html > my.pdf
While we are at it, we could try to apply some other CUPS print subsystem filters on the output: /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftopdf looks like one that could be interesting. This additional filter expects the same sort of parameter number and orders, like all CUPS filters.
So this should work:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdf 1 2 3 4 5 my.html \
| /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftopdf 1 2 3 4 "" \
> my.pdf
However, piping the output of xhtmltopdf into cgpdftopdf is only interesting if we try to apply some "print options". That is, we need to come up with some settings in parameter no. 5 which achieve something.
Looking up the CUPS command line options on the CUPS web page suggests a few candidates:
-o number-up=4
-o page-border=double-thick
-o number-up-layout=tblr
do look like they could be applied while doing a PDF-to-PDF transformation. Let's try:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/xhtmltopdfcc 1 2 3 4 5 my.html \
| /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftopdf 1 2 3 4 5 \
"number-up=4 page-border=double-thick number-up-layout=tblr" \
> my.pdf
Here are two screenshots of results I achieved with this method. Both used as input files two HTML files which were identical, apart from one line: it was the line which referenced a CSS file to be used for rendering the HTML.
As you can see, the xhtmltopdf filter is able to (at least partially) take into account CSS settings when it converts its input to PDF:
Starting 3.6.0.1 , you would need unoconv on the system to converts documents.
Using unoconv with MacOS X
LibreOffice 3.6.0.1 or later is required to use unoconv under MacOS X. This is the first version distributed with an internal python script that works. No version of OpenOffice for MacOS X (3.4 is the current version) works because the necessary internal files are not included inside the application.
I just had the same problem, but I found this LibreOffice help post. It seems that headless mode won't work if you've got LibreOffice (the usual GUI version) running too. The fix is to add an -env option, e.g.
libreoffice "-env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/LibO_Conversion" \
--headless \
--invisible \
--convert-to csv file.xls
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I have a binary I've been trying to fuzz with AFL, the only thing is AFL only fuzzes STDIN, and File inputs and this binary takes input through its arguments pass_read [input1] [input2]. I was wondering if there are any methods/fuzzers that allow fuzzing in this manner?
I don't not have the source code so making a harness is not really applicable.
Michal Zalewski, the creator of AFL, states in this post:
AFL doesn't support argv fuzzing, because TBH, it's just not horribly useful in
practice. There is an example in experimental/argv_fuzzing/ showing how to do it
in a general case if you really want to.
Link to the mentioned example on GitHub: https://github.com/google/AFL/tree/master/experimental/argv_fuzzing
There are some instructions in the file argv-fuzz-inl.h (haven't tried myself).
Bash only Solution
As an example, lets generate 10 random strings and store them in a file
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 10 | head -n 10 > string-file.txt
Next, lets read 2 lines from string-file and pass it into our application
exec handle< string-file.txt
while read string1 <&handle ; do
read string2 <&handle
pass_read $line1 $line2 >> crash_file.txt
done
exec handle<&-
We then have any crashes stored within crash_file.txt for further analysis.
This may not be the most elegant solution, but perhaps you gives you an idea of some other possibilities if no tool necessarily fulfills the current requirements
I looked at the AFLplusplus repo on GitHub. Inside AFLplusplus/utils/argv_fuzzing/, there is a Makefile. If you run it, you will get a .so file (a shared library) that you can use to do argv fuzzing, even if you only have the binary. Obviously, you must use AFL_PRELOAD. You can read more in the README.
I have a csv like below. some of columns have line break like column B below. when I doing wc -l file.csv unix is returning 4 but actually these are 3 records. I don't want to replace line break with space, I am going to load data in database using sql loader and want to load data as it is. what should I do so that unix consider line break as one record?
A,B,C,D
1,"hello
world",sds,sds
2,sdsd,sdds,sdds
Unless you're dealing with trivial cases (No quoted fields, no embedded commas, no embedded newlines, etc.), CSV data is best processed with tools that understand the format. Languages like perl and python have CSV parsing libraries available, there are packages like csvkit that provide useful utilities, and more.
Using csvstat from csvkit on your example:
$ csvstat -H --count foo.csv
Row count: 3
I am relatively new to machine learning/python/ubuntu.
I have a set of images in .jpg format where half contain a feature I want caffe to learn and half don't. I'm having trouble in finding a way to convert them to the required lmdb format.
I have the necessary text input files.
My question is can anyone provide a step by step guide on how to use convert_imageset.cpp in the ubuntu terminal?
Thanks
A quick guide to Caffe's convert_imageset
Build
First thing you must do is build caffe and caffe's tools (convert_imageset is one of these tools).
After installing caffe and makeing it make sure you ran make tools as well.
Verify that a binary file convert_imageset is created in $CAFFE_ROOT/build/tools.
Prepare your data
Images: put all images in a folder (I'll call it here /path/to/jpegs/).
Labels: create a text file (e.g., /path/to/labels/train.txt) with a line per input image . For example:
img_0000.jpeg 1
img_0001.jpeg 0
img_0002.jpeg 0
In this example the first image is labeled 1 while the other two are labeled 0.
Convert the dataset
Run the binary in shell
~$ GLOG_logtostderr=1 $CAFFE_ROOT/build/tools/convert_imageset \
--resize_height=200 --resize_width=200 --shuffle \
/path/to/jpegs/ \
/path/to/labels/train.txt \
/path/to/lmdb/train_lmdb
Command line explained:
GLOG_logtostderr flag is set to 1 before calling convert_imageset indicates the logging mechanism to redirect log messages to stderr.
--resize_height and --resize_width resize all input images to same size 200x200.
--shuffle randomly change the order of images and does not preserve the order in the /path/to/labels/train.txt file.
Following are the path to the images folder, the labels text file and the output name. Note that the output name should not exist prior to calling convert_imageset otherwise you'll get a scary error message.
Other flags that might be useful:
--backend - allows you to choose between an lmdb dataset or levelDB.
--gray - convert all images to gray scale.
--encoded and --encoded_type - keep image data in encoded (jpg/png) compressed form in the database.
--help - shows some help, see all relevant flags under Flags from tools/convert_imageset.cpp
You can check out $CAFFE_ROOT/examples/imagenet/convert_imagenet.sh
for an example how to use convert_imageset.
I have been looking for a way to reformat a CSV (Pipe separator) file with some if parameters, I'm pretty sure this can be done in PHP (strpos and if statements) or using XSLT but wanted to know if this is the best/easiest way to do it before I go and learn my way around a new language. here is a small example of the kind of thing I'm trying to achieve (the real file is about 25000 lines is this changes the answer?)
99407350|Math Book #13 (Random Information)|AB Collings|http:www.abc.com/ABC
497790366|English Book|Harold Herbert|http:www.abc.com/HH
Transform to this:
99407350|Math Book|#13|AB Collings|http:www.abc.com/ABC
497790366|English Book||Harold Herbert|http:www.abc.com/HH
Any advice about which direction I need to look in would be great.
PHP provides getcsv() (PHP 5) and fgetcsv() (PHP 4 and 5) for this, so if you are working in a PHP environment, use that. See e.g. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php
If you do something yourself, remember to cope with "...|..." and/or \| to have | inside a field. Or test to make sure it can't happen - e.g. check the code that exports the database to CSV if that's what's happening.
Note also - on Unix / Solaris / Linux / OS X systems,
awk -F '|' '(NF != 9)' yourfile.csv | wc
will count the number of lines with other than 9 fields; if you are certain | never occurs except as a field delimiter, awk is a perfectly fine language for this too, e.g. with
awk -F '|' '{ gsub(/ [(].*[)]/, "", $1); print}' yourfile.csv
Here, [(] matches ( in a way that works across different versions of awk, and same for [)].
So the utility Diff works just like I want for 2 files, but I have a project that requires comparisons with more than 2 files at a time, maybe up to 10 at a time. This requires having all those files side by side to each other as well. My research has not really turned up anything, vimdiff seems to be the best so far with the ability to compare 4 at a time.
My question: Is there any utility to compare more than 2 files at a time, or a way to hack diff/vimdiff so it can do multiple comparisons? The files I will be comparing are relatively short so it should not be too slow.
Displaying 10 files side-by-side and highlighting differences can be easily done with Diffuse. Simply specify all files on the command line like this:
diffuse 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt 5.txt 6.txt 7.txt 8.txt 9.txt 10.txt
Vim can already do this:
vim -d file1 file2 file3
But you're normally limited to 4 files. You can change that by modifying a single line in Vim's source, however. The constant DB_COUNT defines the maximum number of diffed files, and it's defined towards the top of diff.c in versions 6.x and earlier, or about two thirds of the way down structs.h in versions 7.0 and up.
diff has built-in option --from-file and --to-file, which compares one operand to all others.
--from-file=FILE1
Compare FILE1 to all operands. FILE1 can be a directory.
--to-file=FILE2
Compare all operands to FILE2. FILE2 can be a directory.
Note: argument name --to-file is optional.
e.g.
# this will compare foo with bar, then foo with baz .html files
$ diff --from-file foo.html bar.html baz.html
# this will compare src/base-main.js with all .js files in git repo,
# that has 'main' in their filename or path
$ git ls-files :/*main*.js | xargs diff -u --from-file src/base-main.js
Checkout "Beyond Compare": http://www.scootersoftware.com/
It lets you compare entire directories of files, and it looks like it runs on Linux too.
if your running multiple diff's based off one file you could probably try writing a script that has a for loop to run through each directory and run the diff. Although it wouldn't be side by side you could at least compare them quickly. hope that helped.
Not answering the main question, but here's something similar to what Benjamin Neil has suggested but diffing all files:
Store the filenames in an array, then loop over the combinations of size two and diff (or do whatever you want).
files=($(ls -d /path/of/files/some-prefix.*)) # Array of files to compare
max=${#files[#]} # Take the length of that array
for ((idxA=0; idxA<max; idxA++)); do # iterate idxA from 0 to length
for ((idxB=idxA + 1; idxB<max; idxB++)); do # iterate idxB + 1 from idxA to length
echo "A: ${files[$idxA]}; B: ${files[$idxB]}" # Do whatever you're here for.
done
done
Derived from #charles-duffy's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46719215/1160428
There is a simple an good way to do this = GREP.
Depending on the size of the text you can copy and paste it, or you can redirect the input of the file to the grep command. If you make a grep -vir /path to make a reverse search or a grep -ir /path. This is my way for certification exams.