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# Give back only the basename without using `basename` (i.e. in scripts)
filestring=blurps.pdf
echo ${file%.pdf}

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# compress PDF. Needs ghostscript package.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -DBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf

# compress all PDFs in dir
for file in `ls *.pdf`;
do
  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -DBATCH -sOutputFile=${$file%.pdf}-c.pdf $file
done

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grep -v '^$' #remove empty lines

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" Use the bash instead of my standard shell as most scripts are based on it
set shell=/bin/bash
set t_Co=256                " 256 color mode
set encoding=utf-8          " always use utf-8
set mouse=a                 " enable mouse usage
set nocompatible            " should be auto-on, but to be sure...
set number                  " Numbering on left side.
set relativenumber          " Sets numbers relative to the current line
au InsertEnter * :set nu    " Enter absolute number mode in insert mode
au InsertLeave * :set rnu   "       relative ...         in normal mode