Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-29 Thread Levi Waldron
Well, I wish I had gone and goofed off for the rest of the evening then come in and used one of these 2-3 line solutions this morning. Still, I learned some things reading them and will use them and the tldp reference for future scripting. Thank you, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 29 Jan 2003 10:27:22 +(+), Clive Standbridge wrote: > > I think you would want to round up nnumber to avoid one processor running two xargs >processes: Sorry, that wasn't quite what I meant to say. I'll try again: ... to avoid xargs running two mogrify processes on one processor.

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 29 Jan 2003 08:37:35 +(+0100), Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > files=`find . -name '*.tif' -print | wc -l | tail -c 2 | head -c 1` > cpu=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l | tail -c 2 | head -c 1` If I understand you, you're using "tail -c 2 | head -c 1" to separate the number of l

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:56, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file, the output f

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 17:56:51 +(-0500), Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file,

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:56:51PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file,

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:56:51PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: | I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few | minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of | directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each | input file,