Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Greetings & a Script

[Bruce B. <bbu...@ea...>]

    
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From: "Alaa The Great" <al...@an...>
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Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Greetings & a Script


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> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:27:51 -0700
> "Bruce Burhans" <bbu...@ea...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >     I was referring to files transferred from that legacy
> > system.......
> 
> yes thats why I have to make my scripts space safe, most of my media
> files are from the dark days when all I had was TLS :-)
> 
> > > yes it works because of the back ticks which puts the output of
> > > basename in front of echo.
> > 
> >   Yes,  I caught that.......Bill says that backticks are
> > ugly and to use $( ).  But more is involved :  With a
> > poor editor like the one in OE,  it is very hard to tell
> > whether they are forward  or back quotes.....
> 
> but on the other hand they are identical?? or is there a difference??
> I prefer the backticks brackets in front of a dollar sign have many
> meaning its confusing to memorize them all, anyways I use mcedit when
> I'm writing bash script, backticks have a black background which makes
> them very visible against the blue screen.
> 
> >     THAT  is valuable information....And until now I had
> > no clue......It is hard to  relate to bash as just another
> > executable.....
> yes but it makes sense, I use this alot to do jobs like
> 
> find files using locate or find | filter with grep etc | add a command
> in front of each line using awk | bash to execute this script
> 
> locate core | grep "/core$" | awk '{print "rm " $0}' | bash
> 
> and it removes all core files (or at least all core files the slocate
> data base knows about)
> 
> and a small script (a wrapper really) to rename mp3 files according to
> their id3 data, it uses mp3info for this.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #mp3rename
> 
> for i in $*;
> do
>     mp3info -p "mv \"%f\" \"%a_-_%t.mp3\"\n" "$i" | grep -v "_-_.mp3"
> |tr [\'\;\&] " ";
> 
> done
> 
> I need an ogg one but ogginfo isn't as flexible as mp3info anyone with
> ideas??
> 
> I'm also thinking about one that does the opposite (change id tags
> according to filenames)
> 
> BTW I'm writing a command line and Bash tutorial for my LUG,
> unfortunatly I have to  write in English first and then translate it
> to my native language arabic (it is much easier this way) anypne care
> to review it for me I really need feedback.
>

    Be happy to,  IF  you think I am qualified....Have yet
to even begin learning AWK.........Send in plain text if
possible,  in the main body of the message.....

    Your English is excellent....

Bruce<+>
 
> cheers,
> Alaa
> 
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