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(Ruby) RDoc format example

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:47:51 GMT

This is a boilerplate RDoc template which I paste into new Ruby files that I create. It demonstrates some of the features of RDoc markup, such as links and comments (The 'this code is proprietary' message is commented out in favor of the MIT license) The title directive will not work in plain text files, [due to a bug in RDoc](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3306&group_id=627&atid=2472)

(Perl) Convert a PDF to text with Perl

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:24:58 GMT

Converts the PDF 'example.pdf' to plain text. IIRC this only converts the _first_ page of the document, but that can be changed by modifying the argument to getPageContentTree on line 8. Been a while since I've used this so ymmv.

(Bash) Dump a file to the terminal, starting at some line number

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:36 GMT

tail -n+99 foo.txt will read everything from foo.txt, starting with line 99. Pipe that into more and you just look at the few line(s) you really need. To narrow this so it only prints the interesting lines (and not everything after those lines), see the nice solutions from [deepsoul,](http://snipplr.com/users/deepsoul) below.