Questions tagged [word-processing]
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font madness on linux desktop
I am using Debian 10. fc-list shows following fonts installed on my system:
$ fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u
Bitstream Charter
Century Schoolbook L
Courier 10 Pitch
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Mono
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Get rid of UNIX redirection newly created file without using rm
Using below function to filter out text file and organize to new format.
Using unix redirection > command to create new files.
How can I get rid of creating all new files
(e.g. ${file}_final_1.txt,...
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Add line breaks to Grep Commands
How can I add a few line breaks? I want it to show OpenFin category, have a line break, Chrome category, another line break, then memoryInfo.
Here is what I have so far:
cat LoginExInternal.txt | ...
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Remove specific words within lines
I have a text file that has something like this:
loginName: Name1 userAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/ (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.104 OpenFin/9.61.31.74
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Minimalistic text editor/document processor?
I am looking for an open source word processor that can do the following:
Text size
Access a font database
Big font/cursive
Tables
List
Non-analogue imitation
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Removing each row that possesses a singleton in the first column
I would like to remove each row that possesses a singleton in the first column. e.g.
Input: Letters represent variables of which there may be thousands. Numbers represent columns and rows. There are ...
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Output number of words, characters, or lines in an .doc or .docx document from command line
I have a folder full of .doc or .docx files. I'd like to know how many words--or, failing that, characters or lines--are in each file without opening each one of them. (Use case: I'm a TA who needs to ...
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How to [constantly] read the last line of a file?
I have client filtering out data from an live MQTT stream which writes the data into a myfile.csv file, here are the last four lines:
1426134425,m,NWRL,MSV,001,d,SVlts,139,1840343,26089,28529,15987
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Unable to print awk'ed datum in bash script
I am dumping datum into a csv file (my_datum_file.csv). The contents are all comma seperated, and I want to find the last instance of the 4th parameter (i.e. the last instance of datum regarding MX3, ...
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Sed: modify every non-first word repetition for every word in text
I need to do something like that using sed?
qq ab xyz ab qq aa ab
Becomes:
qq ab xyz +ab+ +qq+ aa +ab+
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Terminal-based spreadsheets and wordprocessor?
Are there any (good) terminal based (ie. runs in a VT, not in GUI/X) spreadsheets or wordprocessors for Unix/Linux? Can anybody remember the name of such programs which were popular before (eg. ...
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Editing RTF files in text mode
I have a bunch of CLI-only computers (I have not bothered to set up a GUI yet). I'm comfortable enough in the CLI to not NEED a GUI for most things. However, as a student, turning in Plain-Text ...
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Synonyms (from a thesaurus) in Emacs
I use Emacs 23 on Debian sid. I can check the spelling of a word in Emacs with M-$. How can I obtain synonyms (using a thesaurus?) for a word in Emacs?
None of the following were useful: one, two, ...
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add new language to /usr/share/dict/words
In this directory I have English dict and my language file, but where I can download other language? Or maybe you known other free dictionary? I need to make list of word that are not in the ...
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Linux for a writer, running on a Pentium II [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux for low-end hardware and internet browsing
My dad has a rather old computer that's just sitting there that I want to repurpose. Now I know could probably get a Pentium 4 ...
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How to read Word .doc files?
How can we read Microsoft Word (.doc) files in a Linux system? It doesn't support .doc files. I tried
strings filename.doc | less
but it gives ugly output. Any other option?
I would prefer a GUI ...
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Are there any MathType clones for Open/Libre - Office?
Are there any OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice equation editor/makers, similar to MathType?
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