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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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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