Strip tags from HTML in vim

David — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:04:40 +0000

When upgrading a website you might see source code like this:

Some text goes here

You’re using CSS now and all those tags are ruining it. In gvim, do this search and substitute:

%s///g

Then to get rid of the tags, do this:

:%s/<\/span>//g

Batch reduce resolution of images in Ubuntu Linux

David — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:56:27 +0000

Open a terminal window or shell (who needs a GUI!?)
sudo apt-get install imagemagick cd image_folder mkdir resized for f in *jpg do convert -resize 30% $f resized/$f done

Easier than Photoshop, I reckon!

I needed this today for some photos I was uploading. Photos from recent cameras are huge and Australian bandwidth doesn’t cut it. So this really helps.

Obviously you only need to do the first line once. I found this in the Ubuntu forums but it took me a while to find the right combination of keywords in Google. View the original thread.

I needed to change jpg to JPG, because the camera used uppercase and Linux is case-sensitive. 30% was good for me but you may need to change that.

If you don’t understand this, ask me, I’m happy to help!

David Nash » convert

Strip tags from HTML in vim

Batch reduce resolution of images in Ubuntu Linux