Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:25 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Oh, and another thought. The find command can do this for you as well, IIRC. find . -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec command {} {}.foo \; is the syntax, IIRC. Note the \ that exists to escape the semicolon, therefore telling find

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:06:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 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? In addition to the resources already mentioned, there is an easy introduction to

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -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

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/10/05, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -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

[gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: 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? Sorry, I picked up most of it from fiddling around, but on to your problem... For

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Daniel Lynch
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -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

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: If you want THE book on command line stuff, I would highly recommend the book UNIX Power Tools published by O'Reilly. It basically goes over every common UNIX command line tool and covers the common/useful tasks you might want to do with it. It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-09 Thread Nick Rout
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