Utility list

Below are the links to the command-not-found page, which gives a quick install and usage guide for each of the commands

command	usage
jupyter nbconvert	Convert jupyter notebooks $\rightarrow$ almost anything
pandoc	Convert almost anything $\rightarrow$ almost anything
pdfunite	Combine pdfs

Below are some of the expanded explanations on how to install and use the utility, refer to this if the above websites are insufficient.

If there are anymore utilities which you think are useful then feel free to contact me and I will add them to the list!

to pdf

.ipynb $\rightarrow$ .pdf

utility docs link

If you want just the command, and assuming you have the jupyter installed here you go :

jupyter nbconvert --to FORMAT notebook.ipynb

To fully get this working you need to have jupyter installed, and to install this you need to have the python package manager pip. To install all of this you should be able to run the following commands:

sudo apt install python3
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip install jupyter

Note - I tested the install commands only for ubuntu, so they might not work for your distro, but once you have jupyter installed it should work all the same.

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.md / .txt $\rightarrow$ .pdf

utility docs link

For this one there is a chance you don’t have the deps so the command for these is

sudo apt install 
  pandoc 
  texlive-latex-base 
  texlive-fonts-recommended 
  texlive-extra-utils 
  texlive-latex-extra 
  texlive-xetex

To then convert a markdown or txt file run the following

pandoc txtdoc.txt -o txtdoc.pdf -V geometry:margin=1in
pandoc mddoc.md -o mddoc.pdf -V geometry:margin=1in 

The default margin is somewhat absurdly large so thats why I added the additional margin option

Note - pandoc actually has alot of different conversions if you need something more specific converted so its a really nice utility to have

combining pdf

utility docs link

If you want to combine multiple .pdf’s into one you can use pdfunite as follows

To install the deps

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

To combine multiple pdfs into one

pdfunite path/to/fileA.pdf path/to/fileB.pdf path/to/merged_output.pdf