On 13-Jan-2010, at 00:50, Bruce Van Allen wrote: > Here's one of my uses:
Wow. that's so much more involved than anything i do with them, but I still find them almost magical in their abilities. One thing I find myself doing a lot is renaming a lot of files. For example, I have a directory where I've encoded a bunch of DVDs of some TV show. I used a shell worksheet to first run a command over the entire directory structure, first to convert the files from their current format to h264 "Normal" and then used a find replace to rename the resulting files. I could maybe have written a much more complicated shell script to just do it all, but it was so easy to do it in the shell worksheet Find: ^(.*)\.mpeg\.m4v Repl: mv "&" "\1.m4v" (yeah yeah, I know I'm reencoding, but it's a freaking TV show and I'm not going back to the original DVDs. I am saving 50-60% of the filesize though) Then simply hit enter and all the files get renamed. Pretty tame stuff compared to what you are doing, but insanely useful to me. -- Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. --Reaper Man
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