In article <mailman.5134.1241579669.11746.python-l...@python.org>, The Music Guy <music...@alphaios.net> wrote: > >After I download the files, I usually want to convert them to another >video format using command line tools, and I usually convert each one >in a separate terminal since that way they can all be converted at the >same time rather than one-by-one. Oddly enough, converting tends to >take longer than downloading, but converting multiple files at once is >faster than converting them one-by-one.
Here's my download script to get you started figuring this out, it does the wget in the background so that several downloads can run in parallel from a single terminal window: #!/bin/bash echo "Downloading $1" wget "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 & -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." --Bill Harlan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
