[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 10:32 +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Some friends of mine have seen the light and are trying out Linux. I'm
> trying to remember things that came as pleasant surprises when I started
> using Linux, and invite anyone to chip in with their own.
> 
> I'm not talking about the big benefits, like security, flexibility,
> freedom, more the little things they can try out and enjoy:
> 
> - symlinks

Piping the output of one command into another?

Quickest example which springs to mind for a decent demo is
the PBM tools.
Install ImageMagick, then go to a directory which has e.g. a set
of digital photographs.
List all the files, cat them through a few filters to (say) convert
them to black and white, scale, then convert to PDF.
Then alter the last command, convert to Postscript (whatever) and
print them off.

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