On 22 September 2010 10:11, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys! > > Yeah, I am not saying it is anyone's fault and my CLI abilities are very > basic. Also, even when I do research such stuff, I forget it quickly. For > instance, I remember testing a CLI command to convert photos from one size > to another. It was very fast and efficient and I was really convinced that > it is much faster than firing up a GUI program. However, when I had to do a > similar task some months later, at that moment I had no access to the > Internet and I could not remember what command that was and how to use it. > So eventually I had to give up. > Same with file encoding. It does not come up very often, when it does - will > I remember the command? That's why you put such commands into a bash script so you have it for reference. for instance: #!/bin/bash # flac_to_mp3 for f in *.mp3; do lame -v "$f"; done Don't forget to make it executable: chmod +x flac_to_mp3 A good reference is the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ james -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
