Questions tagged [split]
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How can I extract a page range / a part of a PDF?
Do you have any idea how to extract a part of a PDF document and save it as PDF?
On OS X it is absolutely trivial by using Preview. I tried PDF editor and other programs but to no avail.
I would like a program where I select the part that I want and…
user72469
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How to split larger files into smaller parts?
I have a large file (8GB for Example). How can I split it into multiple parts, let's say 3 equal parts, and after that how do I integrate them later?
karthick87
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Split monitor in two
Is there a way to split a single monitor in two, so that the two halves will be treated as separate monitors? This means that windows should fill half the screen when maximized. Also, gnome panels should fill half the screen.
Kalle Elmér
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Compress and split files in the file explorer
If you right click a file in Nautilus and select Compress, then you get a dialog where you can choose a compression format and a filename. If you click on Advanced, then there are settings to split and compress the file, but it's…
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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split screen to more than two
if you use (super + right/left arrow) it will move the window to the right or left side of the screen and you can split the entire of your screen for two windows.
is there any way to do split the screen for more than two windows?
for example I want…
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"cat: write error: File too large" when trying to join 7GB backup
I have a 7gb .iso file, and I want to move it to a secondary HDD I have connected on my computer, first I tried to move the entire file and it failed saying the file was too large. I noticed always 4GB was copied, so I used split to generate 3GB…
trimoans
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How do I split a multi-page tif file?
I have big 100+ page tif files and would like to be able to split it at a specified page.
there are excellent tools for doing this with pdfs. I'm looking for something similar for tif images, both GUI and command line solutions.
To Do
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How to use split file into two based on line start?
I have this file 1.txt:
-e a
b
-e c
d
-e e
f
I want to split it into the following two files.
2.txt
-e a
-e c
-e e
3.txt
b
d
f
where 2.txt contains all the lines starting with -e, and 3.txt contains all the other lines. Extra newlines (such as…
Mario Ishac
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Can I make one monitor act like two, split in half
Context: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity
Let's say I have a screen at resolution 1000x500.
What I'd like to do is split the screen down the middle so [Unity or X or ?] acts as if there are two displays (each of 500x500).
Examples:
Unity will display a…
Nathan J.B.
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split a file based on pre-defined set of rows
I want to split a text file according to a pre-defined set of rows.
For example. I have a file
a
b
c
d
e
f
And then I have the following sets of rows (these could be stored however it is more convenient, on one file, multiple…
ADJ
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Any alternative to XTerm with splitting and tabs?
XTerm is great because I can view images inside it in w3m or ranger. However, as a terminal it does not support tabs or splitting. Is there an alternative that works like XTerm but supports splitting and tabs?
Ashwin Nanjappa
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I want to split sound
I would like to split sound between skype and games/music/system.
I want skype to use headphones plugged in, and system to use speakers.
Is that possible?
Microphone - mic in PINK
Headphones - audio on GREEN
Speakers - line in BLUE
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Change default location of programs / users
I just bought a new SSD hard drive and want to minimize writing to the drive by moving users and applications to another 1TB hard drive.
Windows 7 accomplishes this fairly easily.
I want to know how I can do the same on ubuntu 11.04. I want to…
Brian
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The name of the ubuntu 4 screens split window
In my university's linux, there is in the dock a button that when we click on it, we can move the screen to either top right/bottom left/bottom right, and the actual screen is in the top left of this split screen. It was extremely useful cuz I was…
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how to split all the files in a directory in to 4gb files to a different directory?
I have a directory containing several large files that are each greater than 4gb. I want to copy all of those files to a different directory (happens to be a fat32 usb drive mounted), but split the files down to 4gb (since the destination drive is…
Scott Sz
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