Linux Lyfe - 7jw9/MASc GitHub Wiki
#Learning Linux
If you're new to Linux, this is a good place to start:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
#vi
So you need a text editor? vi is the shit. Learn it now.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/pdf/unix-vi-editor.pdf
#Compressing/Decompressing Files
I can never remember the exact incantations for compressing/decompressing files, so I use this cheat sheet:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/question/general/compress-file-unix-linux-cheat-sheet.php
#PDFtk
Merge your pdfs! Rearrange them! Remove a page! You can do all of these things with PDFtk, a pdf-manipulation tool. PDFtk is the original command-line version of the tool, and you can download it here:
https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/. They also apparently have a GUI version, but I don't have any experience with it.
Useful examples of commands you can run in PDFtk(same as if you run man pdftk in the terminal):