> -----Original Message-----
>
> > find . -name "*.wav" -print -exec oggenc -q 5 {} \;
>
> It does exactly the trick I need for making .ogg files out
> of my wav's. Perfect! for ogg...
>
>
> hack through them. But maybe also somebody could explain to
> me what the above magic command line is doing so I can
> subvert it to my own evil purposes. ;-)
It doesn't look like anyone explained the command line to you so I'll do
it real quick.
First the entire command is based on find (one of the most underused and
oft looked over commands I have come across, granted I have only been
doing this for a year or so)
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/find.1.html
so basically:
find
(name of the command)
.
(this directory)
-name "*.wav"
search for the pattern *.wav in the name of the files in this
dir
-print
prints the full filename of any matching files
-exec oggenc -q 5 {} \;
and the most powerful part of find, basically what this does is
that any files it finds run the following command line [up to the \;]
replacing {} with the files
So basically the commands runs through all the fiels in the current
directory and everytime it finds a wave runs
oggenc -q 5 mywave.wav
cool huh? I love linux :).
m.
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