[LAU] No batch processing on Linux?

tee lau at dadacafe.org
Wed Sep 22 09:19:31 UTC 2010


On 22/09/2010 11:11, Louigi Verona wrote:
> it is much faster than firing up a GUI program. However, when I had to do a
> similar task some months later, at that moment I had no access to the
> Internet and I could not remember what command that was and how to use it.

a hint from someone with lossy memory compression:

after having successfully used such a command, scroll up in your history
to find it and write it into a new file, ie like

echo "for i in *flac ; do lame $i ; done" >> flac2mp3.sh


after all, that is what shell scripts are for.

hth,
tee


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