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#!/bin/bash

# Fixes sudo issues
if (($EUID != 0)); then
  if [[ -t 1 ]]; then
    sudo "$0" "$@"
  else
    exec 1>output_file
    gksu "$0 $@"
  fi

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#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to install latest version of ffmpeg and its dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04
# Copyright @ 2014 Shuen-Huei (Drake) Guan <[email protected]>

# References:
# * https://gist.github.com/xdamman/e4f713c8cd1a389a5917
# * https://blog.dlasley.net/2013/05/install-ffmpeg-from-source/
# * http://fermat-little-theorem-blog.logdown.com/posts/203069-solved-when-building-gpac-suffer-usr-local-lib-libswscalea-error-adding-symbols-bad-value

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#!/bin/bash
# Author: Maxwel Leite
# Website: http://needforbits.tumblr.com/
# Description: Simple bash script to install the latest static version of FFmpeg (from http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/)
# Dependencies: wget
# Tested: Ubuntu Saucy

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo -e "You must be a root user!\nTry: sudo ./ffmpeg-update.sh" 2>&1
    exit 1

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#!/bin/bash

# Bash script to install latest version of ffmpeg and its dependencies on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04
# Inspired from https://gist.github.com/faleev/3435377

# Remove any existing packages:
sudo apt-get -y remove ffmpeg x264 libav-tools libvpx-dev libx264-dev

# Get the dependencies (Ubuntu Server or headless users):
sudo apt-get update

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Types

type Vertex struct {
    Lat, Long float64
}

Maps

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#!/bin/bash

# Renames subtitles files according to tv shows names found in a directory
# Acceped syntaxes for season/episode are: 304, s3e04, s03e04, 3x04 (case insensitive)
#
# Usage:
# Put this gist somewhere in your $PATH, like /usr/local/bin/subtitles-renamer
# Chmod +x it
# cd ~/YourHolidaysTvShowsWithSubtitles
# subtitles-renamer

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#!/bin/bash

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libfreetype6-dev \
    libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev \
    libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texinfo zlib1g-dev

# Create a dir where the rest of the sources will live
mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources

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#!/bin/sh

# any2pandoc.sh
#
# A shell script that tries its best to convert documents thrown at it
# to pandoc's extended markdown.
#
# https://gist.github.com/1181510
#
# Depends on: 

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Additions wanted - please just fork and add.

Tutorials

• Parsing PDFs by Thomas Levine
• [Get Started With Scraping – Extracting Simple Tables from PDF Documents][scoda-simple-tables]

Generic (PDF -> text)

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#! /bin/bash

# build the environment
mkdir tessenv; cd tessenv 
TROOT=`pwd` 
mkdir $TROOT/stockfonts; mkdir $TROOT/build; mkdir $TROOT/build/eng 
echo "Environment built"
# Get the stock english fonts from Google (old, but they work)
cd $TROOT/stockfonts
GET http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/boxtiff-2.01.eng.tar.gz > boxtiff-2.01.eng.tar.gz