* "JP" == JP Sartre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JP> Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, JP> as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from JP> going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday) JP> are there any good online sources for basic script writing?
Not for you, but for any german speaking readers who might read this message: http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/artikel/unix/shellprogrammierung/ JP> For instance, I would like to rename some wav files to 01.wav, JP> 02.wav etc. and renaming 01-A_Wav.wav and 02-Another_Wav.wav to JP> 01.wav and 02.wav seems tedious. I know a simple script file could JP> do this. mmv "[0-9][0-9]_*.wav" "#1#2.wav" package mmv. Ciao, Martin