By the time you have a clever bash script that presents you with choices and so on, you might as well put 'ok' and 'cancel' buttons on it and call it a GUI!
RichardA John Richard Smith, Saturday 22 June 2002 19:04: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 17:28, you wrote: > > > Thanks Tom, > > > > > > Your reply has stimulated my thinking, I had noticed various > > > pieces of threads where people were setting up aliases and had > > > thought of perhaps doing something with this device , but my > > > knowledge is a bit lacking. It's obvious that for instance just > > > to use cdrecord for all it's possiblities that it might well > > > require 10 or so aliases, or is there another way of doing it. I > > > wounderd whether it was possible to set up a situation, where you > > > typed cdrecord into a terminal and all the availble choices came > > > up, and you selected one and pressed enter,and the appropriate > > > command line is then run. Just a thought. > > > > Hi John, depends what you are referring to. What choices of > > cdrecord do you want to have? If I recall there aren't so many > > options, or have you managed to get cdrecord to get your groceries > > and wash the car? ;-) > > > > I usually make a bash script for the program choices I want, but I > > have no idea what you mean with cdrecord. Give me a list of what > > you want (not anything you can think of), and I will tell you if > > it's possible with bash. > > > > Greetings > > Ralph > > Well, it''s not just cdrecord , but it will do for example, so > within it's capabilities are to my certain knowledge audio, data, ISO > image etc etc, now each one of these headings has a number of > variation, so that shall we take for an instance audio writing, > if I want to write audio tracks to disc and this is a multiple > continuous audio track(without gaps) then I use, > cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,1,0 -dao -audio -eject > /homedirectory/tmp/*.wav > this writes the individual files on my home directory in /tmp. > but if i want to do the same with 2 second gaps gaps I think it is > slightly different , anyway you get the idea, and so if one can set > up aliases so that they do the full range of whatever commands you > eventually wind up for the cdrecord programme, I think it needs to be > organised in some way. The aim might be to type cdrecord into > terminal, then, > cdrecord - audio, read with gaps, opt 1 > audio, read without gaps, opt 2 > > audio write with gaps, opt 3 > audio write without gaps opt 4 > select <type option number> command runs. > I suppose it's too much really, just floating an idea. > don't take it to seriously. > John
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