Webmasters/Webdesigners often need to do repetitive image manipulation tasks like resizing for thumbnails, image borders etc. Even though a plethora of image manipulation software are available, nothing beats ImageMagick when you need to perform simple tasks, especially since it lends itself well to automation using shell scripts. We outline here 5 common image manipulation techniques with ImageMagick.

Ever ftp’d Windows files into a unix box and then found that some of your scripts break because the file names have spaces in them? Here are couple of one liners that will help fix this by removing one or more spaces in the file names.

Although it is not usual (or preferred) to use a shell script to execute sql queries in Oracle, this recipe discusses how this can be done for those rare cases when you need to.