On 4/28/05, bruce woller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric: > 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?
Yup, that's the goal :-). Baby steps. Eric > 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? > >>> > >>> Eric. > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
