Linux Bash Snippets

# download Springer Link Books via University Proxy

export http_proxy="http://proxy.zfn.uni-bremen.de:3128";
wget -r -l 1 --proxy-user STUD_IP_USERNAME --proxy-passwd STUD_IP_PASSWORD  LINK_TO_BOOK; 
for i in link.springer.com/content/pdf/*; 
  do j=`echo $i | cut -f 1`; j=$j".pdf"; 
  mv $i $j; 
done

# rename files downloaded from StudIP

rename 's/\[[0-9]+\]_//' *

# copy image files into a subdirectory and rescale them to a width of 1024

mkdir small_images;
for i in *.jpg; 
  do convert "$i" -resize 1024x "small/$i" ; 
done