From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EOo8m-0008Ao-FD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:15:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9A35S5p028865; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:05:28 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9A30WwX004163 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:00:33 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFEE11C778 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:24 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:09:44 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510091906s2631d15bh46dc269fcb312534@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0510091906s2631d15bh46dc269fcb312534@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20051010160940.7524.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 80e61044-bb77-4f40-ad25-86c9cdd719ba X-Archives-Hash: 2aa4e1cfcf4b5ad59322867aacb1344b http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:06:53 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good > web site on this topic? > > For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a > directory which will create a new file, so I need to do > > command file1.wav file1-convert.wav > > I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual > command that gets run and then do that for every file in the > directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories. > > Thanks, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list