Poor man's pdf diff tool

Recently a client shared updated requirement document, unfortunately the document was in PDF and I don’t want to go through 60+ pages of document for changes.

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How to view (Windows) line ending characters on Mac OSX

Notepad++ on windows has this beautiful option “View all characters” to display all invisbile characters such as line endings. Programming editors on mac like Textwrangler and Textmate has an option to Show Invisibles but failed to display the character block for Carriage Return as Notepad used to.

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Batch renaming of files (Mac OSX / *nix)

How to batch/bulk rename files with automatic sequence number? Try the following shell script from your terminal (OSX/*nix) Create a new directory Run the following command (you can replace newdir with the your directory name and some_prefix with your prefix the same applicable for extension as well.

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