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 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.
# for file in `ls *.wav`
> do
> newname=`echo ${file} | sed -e "s/\.wav$/-convert.wav/"`
> command -i ${file} -o ${newname}
> done
chug...chug...chug
and it's done. But this will only work on files in one subdirectory.
For recursive operations, replace the first line with this:
# for file in `find . -type f -iname "*.wav" -print`
hth,
jason.
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