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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:20:28 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510092218440.22224@gandalf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510091906s2631d15bh46dc269fcb312534@mail.gmail.com>

There is a online, downloadable "Advanced Bash" at

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Which is well worth it.  I printed it out and refer to it.

There are others that I found with a search for "Advanced Bash" but I 
haven't tried them.

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, 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
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10  2:06 [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff Mark Knecht
2005-10-10  2:18 ` Jason Cooper
2005-10-10  2:20 ` Brett I. Holcomb [this message]
2005-10-10  2:22 ` Daniel Lynch
2005-10-10  2:32   ` Jason Cooper
2005-10-10  3:09 ` Nick Rout
2005-10-10  7:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-10  9:00 ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-10-10 14:57   ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-11  7:25     ` Drew Tomlinson
2005-10-11  8:09       ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)

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