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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:28:21
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0510092218440.22224@gandalf
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff by Mark Knecht
1 There is a online, downloadable "Advanced Bash" at
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3 http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
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5 Which is well worth it. I printed it out and refer to it.
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7 There are others that I found with a search for "Advanced Bash" but I
8 haven't tried them.
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10 On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
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12 > Hi,
13 > I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone
14 > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good
15 > web site on this topic?
16 >
17 > For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a
18 > directory which will create a new file, so I need to do
19 >
20 > command file1.wav file1-convert.wav
21 >
22 > I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual
23 > command that gets run and then do that for every file in the
24 > directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories.
25 >
26 > Thanks,
27 > Mark
28 >
29 >
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33 Brett I. Holcomb
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