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On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone |
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> recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good |
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> web site on this topic? |
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> For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a |
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> directory which will create a new file, so I need to do |
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> command file1.wav file1-convert.wav |
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> I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual |
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> command that gets run and then do that for every file in the |
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> directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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If you want THE book on command line stuff, I would highly recommend the |
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book "UNIX Power Tools" published by O'Reilly. It basically goes over |
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every common UNIX command line tool and covers the common/useful tasks |
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you might want to do with it. It's a very thick book, but don't be |
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intimidated by its size,you can read just the sections you need. It's |
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basically a recipe book. As far as a website, a decent tutorial for |
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shell scripting is available at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ |
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