22 Sep
2010
22 Sep
'10
12:59 p.m.
Hi,
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:11:49 Louigi Verona wrote:
Yeah, I am not saying it is anyone's fault and my
CLI abilities are very
basic. Also, even when I do research such stuff, I forget it quickly. For
instance, I remember testing a CLI command to convert photos from one size
to another. It was very fast and efficient and I was really convinced that
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.
So eventually I had to give up.
Same with file encoding. It does not come up very often, when it does -
will I remember the command?
Normally when I have to repeat a number of commands, I write a bash/sh-script.
That also helps in remembering. (One of the basic principles of programming
and administration, dry - don't repeat yourself.)
Only in this case of conversion/copying of files the resulting script would
have been to complicated for a ten-minutes hack (several subdirs with source-
files of ogg, mp3 and more as input converted to a target dir, preserving the
directory-structure while converting all files to mp3 when the target is the
mp3-only player and convert all to mp3 or ogg when the target is the mobile
player - thats the features that script would have needed), so I searched
aptitude for something and found the converter. It isn't as flexible as the
ideas I had for a script, but was faster to "write"...
Have fun,
Arnold