[ubuntu-in] Littleutils - pack of small useful utilities

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

See this link (
http://linuxaria.com/howto/littleutils-a-great-collection-of-small-utility?lang=en)
to read about how to install a set of small nifty utilities (apps i suppose
in the android era)

edited portions of the original article is below for those who don't want
to redirect elsewhere

If people are interested in getting access to similar small and very useful
utilities its worth looking at the scripts packed in along with Ultimate
Edition (an Ubuntu Deriviative)
http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition/ultimate-edition-2-9/. The
scripts are usually placed /home/foo-user/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts and are
available on the rightclick of the mouse. Am not sure what is going to
happen under Gnome 3 ?? but while its there (in Gnome 2) its great to have.


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Littleutils, a Great collection of small
utility<http://linuxaria.com/howto/littleutils-a-great-collection-of-small-utility?lang=en>

I’ve recently discovered another useful package  for GNU/Linux,
Littleutils<http://sourceforge.net/projects/littleutils/>
.

The littleutils include a duplicate file finder (repeats), image optimizers
(opt-jpg opt-png opt-gif recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase
uppercase), archive recompressors (to-bzip to-7zip to-lzma), a tempfile
utility (tempname), all are small programs that do just 1 thing, in a
perfect Unix style, so don’t expect anything too complex but these small
gems can save you some time to do specific jobs.



 Installation

The software is not available as package in some of the distro that i use
(Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS), so this is a small list of operations that you
can follow to build it from sources:
Installing littleutils: Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit)

These instructions were tested with littleutils 1.0.24 and Ubuntu 11.04
(32-bit, desktop edition).

   1. Download the latest version of
littleutils<http://sourceforge.net/projects/littleutils/>to your
Download directory
   2. Open a terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
   3. Move the download to a better location: *sudo mv
   ~/Downloads/littleutils-1.0.24.tar.bz2 /usr/local/src/*
   4. Use the root user account: *sudo su*
   5. Install dependencies: *apt-get install gifsicle pngcrush lzip
   libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libjpeg-progs p7zip-full*
   6. Uncompress littleutils: *cd /usr/local/src && tar jxvf
   littleutils-1.0.24.tar.bz2 && cd littleutils-1.0.24*
   7. Configure and install littleutils: *./configure && make && make
   install && make install-extra*

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Image Optimization

There is another big group of utility in this package, 3 programs that can
optimizes your images: *opt-gif*, *opt-jpg* and *opt-png*.

*opt-gif* losslessly optimizes GIF images by removing unused palette
entires. This is accomplished using the gifsicle, filesize, and tempname
utilities.

*opt-jpg* losslessly optimizes JPEG images. This is accomplished using a
combination of the filesize, jpegtran, and tempname utilities

*opt-png* losslessly optimizes PNG images by removing unused palette
entries and/or optimizing the filtering algorithm. This is accomplished
using a combination of the filesize, pngcrush, pngrecolor, pngstrip, and
tempname utilities.

With these utility you can save from 5% to 15% of the size of your images.

And if you use WordPress as CMS i suggest to check the plugin CW Image
Optimizer <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cw-image-optimizer/>.
The CW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically and
losslessly optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can
also optimize the images that you have already uploaded in the past.
Conclusions

In this article I’ve show some of the 31 small utility that are included in
this package, a lot of these results can be achieved by others commands and
or combinations, but i like specific commands to do just a small thing,
they are a good addition in any Linux user arsenal.
***best

Ram
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