On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:06:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good > web site on this topic?
In addition to the resources already mentioned, there is an easy introduction to the command line at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ > > For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a > directory which will create a new file, so I need to do > > command file1.wav file1-convert.wav for f in *.wav; do command "$f" "$(basename '$f' .wav)-convert.wav"; done > I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual > command that gets run and then do that for every file in the > directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories. This works for a single directory, to recurse you'd need something like find. find somedir -name '*.wav' | while read f; do \ command "$f" "$(dirname '$f')/$(basename '$f' .wav)-convert.wav"; \ done -- Neil Bothwick Acute sufferer of B5 deprivation syndrome; Owner of redundant television .
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