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On 10/10/05, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) <spider@g.o> wrote: |
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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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> For bash / zsh and other advanced(?-) shells: |
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> for f in *.wav; do command "$f" "${f/.wav/-convert.wav}";done |
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> The " " are there to prevent files with spaces in them (evil!) from |
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> becoming too annoying and appearing as multiple commandline arguments. |
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> //Spider |
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Thanks to all for the great answers and pointers. I appreciate it very much. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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