On 22 September 2010 22:07, drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 05:11:49 Louigi Verona 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? > > I tend to document these things for myself in a wiki that lives on the lan. > The suggestions for putting them in a script work well too. >> >> I will try Gnome SoundConverter, thanks for this GUI suggestion. CLI >> suggestions are also very welcome, I will try them anyway, of course. Oh, very interesting, because I tend to forget many important moves as well. That is why, over the past few years, I have grown one huge file called TRICKS in $HOME with verbatim commands echoed as and when they are first used, and sometimes I would open up the file to add little comments to make sure 10 years down the road I know what each of them do/did. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
