Hi, On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:11:49 Louigi Verona wrote: > 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? Normally when I have to repeat a number of commands, I write a bash/sh-script. That also helps in remembering. (One of the basic principles of programming and administration, dry - don't repeat yourself.) Only in this case of conversion/copying of files the resulting script would have been to complicated for a ten-minutes hack (several subdirs with source- files of ogg, mp3 and more as input converted to a target dir, preserving the directory-structure while converting all files to mp3 when the target is the mp3-only player and convert all to mp3 or ogg when the target is the mobile player - thats the features that script would have needed), so I searched aptitude for something and found the converter. It isn't as flexible as the ideas I had for a script, but was faster to "write"... Have fun, Arnold
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