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Join PDF files in linux

Hello linux users: in this post i will show how to join two or more PDF files into one. You have to install the Ghostscript driver to do that, typing in a terminal(is for Debian and Ubuntu):

apt-get install gs
apt-get install pdftk

Now we join the PDFs with this command:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unidos.pdf  file1.pdf  file2.pdf

Here is the explanation of command:
gs: Call to the Ghostscript program.
-dBATCH: Close the Ghostscript when terminate the process.
-dNOPAUSE: Dont pause the program to aks for user interaction.
-q: Dont show messages during the process.
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite: Use Ghostscript PDF generator to do the process.
-sOutputFile=unidos.pdf: The name of the result file.

You can also join all PDF files in a directory typing *.pdf.

Linux:how to mount partitions at startup

If you want to add a extra drive/partition and want it to automatically mount on start up then heres what i did, there is other ways.

• Firstly you need to get the information of the drive/partition you want to mount. To do it open a Terminal and type the following command:

blkid
and you will get something like this:
/dev/sda1: UUID=”FAF804CFF8048C57” LABEL=”Sistema” TYPE=”ntfs“
/dev/sda3: UUID=”87d8a036-4271-4063-81d0-fc8a78889bf6″ TYPE=”ext4″
/dev/sda5: UUID=”E884ED1284ECE3D2″ LABEL=”Work” TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda6: UUID=”144A5E7CA87A5099″ LABEL=”Sof-CEAC” TYPE=”ntfs”
/dev/sda7: TYPE=”swap” UUID=”43a7e90c-7ad9-4790-a169-14ae9b8b1945″

If you want to mount the first drive sda1 named  “Sistema” you need tu login as root typing su and follow this steps:

1. Create a new directory in /media with drive name, in this case sda1.
   mkdir /media/sda1
2. Now you have to write  your /etc/fstab file to mount the partition, you need to change the red parts with your drive information.Type that command:
   echo “UUID=381046201045E60A /media/sda1 ntfs defaults 0 2″ >> /etc/fstab
3. Now restart your computer and the drive should appear mounted automatically.