Shell scripts are difficult, terse and inflexible. Have you considered using a scripting language expressly constructed for the types of operations you are performing? Perl, Python, Rexx/Regina, Ruby will all make your task easier. Some even come with a GUI API. I am certain that using shell scripts will enhance your knowledge of the *NIX shell but is it that the goal?
Bruce On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
Further to my question on sending files from one app to another...
What I do is download an .ogg stream using wget and stop the download by killall wget. I'd like to write the name of the file that wget is creating to a log file and then use another shell script to read the file name from the log, and, perhaps delete the file name from that log once processed (i.e. re-write the log-file without the name in it).
Any ideas? Using grep I imagine but I've not got very far in the output phase of things (how to write/append a script variable to a text file is my first challenge).
Thanks, Eric.
On 4/27/05, Cian Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Short answer: Yes, just use a pipe (|) to do it
Long answer: Don't bother, just recompile LAME with Ogg input support - its either an official compile option or theres a patch for it. oggdec is slow (not that LAME doing it will be majorly), and there is a possibility of pipe-starvation, where LAME could be running faster than oggdec, and there wouldn't be any file to encode from...
Cian
On 27/04/05, Eric Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi all,
I'm trying to use oggdec and lame to convert from .ogg to .mp3.
First I decode with oggdec to a .wav file and then from .wav to .mp3 using lame.
What I was wondering is if it'd be possible to direct the .wav output from oggdec *directly* to lame, skipping the intermediate file creation process?
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