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Its also possible to merge PDF files by using simply Ghostscript (useful for older Linux releases and UNIX – Sun OS / Solaris / HP-UX etc.)

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged-file.pdf file1-to-merge.pdf file2-to-merge.pdf file3-to-merge.pdf

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Merge (convert) multiple PDF files into one single PDF – Generate one pdf from many on Linux / Windows and Mac

If you need to reduce generated PDF file size with GS the common way is with:
 

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf


Merge (convert) multiple PDF files into one single PDF – Generate one pdf from many on Linux / Windows and Mac

There are also other tools to be used to merge multiple PDFs under Linux.

There is pdfunite (part of poppler) Linux package and pdfjam part of pdfpages (on debian there is separate pdfjam package).

Here are some comparison between the (pdfunite, pdfjam and pdftk) in speed, created file-size, support of PDF hyperlinks etc.:

Comparison

  pdfunite pdfjam pdftk
Configuration No configuration options. Lots of options. See pdfjam --help. Lots of options. See pdftk --help.
Speed 0.200s 1.297s 0.293s
File Size 718 KiB 743 KiB 774 KiB
Hyperlinks Internal hyperlinks broken Gone OK
Page Format Original format is preserved. All pages are converted to the same format. Original format is preserved.

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IBM TSM dsmc console client use for listing configured backups, checking set scheduled backups and backup and restore operations howto

 backupsetname        Command line only.                             
 class                Command line only.                             
 dateformat           Client system options file (dsm.sys) or  command line.
 detail               Command line only.                             
 dirsonly             Command line only.                             
 filelist             Command line only.                             
 filesonly            Command line only.                             
 fromdate             Command line only.                             
 fromowner            Command line only.                             
 fromowner            Command line only.                             
 fromtime             Command line only.                             
 inactive             Command line only.                             
 nasnodename          Client system options file (dsm.sys) or command line.
 numberformat         Client user-options file (dsm.opt) or command line
 pitdate              Command line only.                             
 pittime              Command line only.                             
 querysummary         Command line only.                             
 scrolllines          Client user-options file (dsm.opt) or command line
 scrollprompt         Client user-options file (dsm.opt) or command line 
 subdir               Client user-options file (dsm.opt) or command line
 timeformat           Client user-options file (dsm.opt) or command line
 todate               Command line only.                             
 totime               Command line only.                             

 

Examples

Task     Display a list of all active and inactive backup versions of
         your files in the current directory.

          dsmc query backup -inactive "*"


Task     Display a list of all your backups in the current directory.
         Use the detail option to display the last modification date and
         the last access date of each file.

          dsmc q backup -detail "*"


Task     Display a list of files that were backed up from the /home/proj
         directory with file names that begin with proj.

          dsmc q b "/home/proj/proj*"


Task     Display a list of active and inactive backup file versions in
         the /home file system.

          dsmc q b -ina -su=yes /home/


Task     Query file system images from the nas2 NAS file server.

          dsmc query backup -nasnodename=nas2 -class=nas

Query NAS file system images

You can use the query backup command to display information about file
system images backed up for a NAS file server. Tivoli Storage Manager
prompts you for an administrator ID.

Where supported, use the nasnodename option to identify the NAS file
server to query. Place the nasnodename option in your client
system-options file (dsm.sys). The value in the client system-options
file is the default, but this value can be overridden on the command
line.

Use the class option to specify the class of the file space to query. To
display a list of images belonging to a NAS node, use the -class=nas
option.


IBM TSM dsmc console client use for listing configured backups, checking set scheduled backups and backup and restore operations howto
Supported Clients

 

This command is valid for all clients.

Syntax

 

>>-Query Backup–+————+–+- –filespec—+————-><

                 '- –options-'  '- –"filespec"-'

 

Parameters

filespec

   Specifies the path and file name that you want to query. Use wildcard

   characters to specify a group of files or all the files in a

   directory. If you use wildcard characters, enclose the file

   specification in double quotation marks. Specify an asterisk (*) to

   display information about backup versions for all of your files in

   the current directory. Do not use wildcards characters when you query

   NAS file system images with -class=nas option setting.


IBM TSM dsmc console client use for listing configured backups, checking set scheduled backups and backup and restore operations howto
DSMC Commands

 

Query Backup

 

The query backup command displays a list of backup versions of your

files that are stored on the Tivoli Storage Manager, or that are inside

a backup set from the server when the backupsetname option is specified.

 

 

The command displays the following file information:

*  File specification

*  File size

*  Backup date

*  Whether the file is active or inactive

*  The management class that is assigned to the file. Only the first 10

   characters of the management class name are displayed.

 

If you use the detail option with the query backup command, the client

displays the following extra information:

*  Last modification date

*  Last file attributes (inode) change date

*  Compression

*  Encryption type

*  Client-side data deduplication

*  Whether the file is migrated or premigrated. A value of Yes means

   that the file is migrated or premigrated. A value of No means that

   the file is not migrated or premigrated.


TinyProxy Quick and Easy way to run a Proxy Caching server to protect and speed up web traffic on Linux / BSD and Mac

What Tinyproxy Does Keep in Memory:

While it doesn’t cache, it does use in-memory buffers to temporarily hold data during transmission (standard for any proxy). This is not caching in the HTTP sense — it's transient and discarded immediately after serving the request.


TinyProxy Quick and Easy way to run a Proxy Caching server to protect and speed up web traffic on Linux / BSD and Mac
Hello,

Tinyproxy is caching in the server’s memory, so your statement is incorrect and the swear word doesn’t make it look intelligent.

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