Monthly Archives: September 2008

faster: a bashpodder plugin

I’ve been asked to supply the script that I use to speed up podcasts. So here it is: #!/bin/bash # v0.3 20080919 https://kenfallon.com if [ -d “${*}” ]; then cd “${*}” ls -1 2>/dev/null | while read FILE;do FILENAME=${FILE##*/} sox … Continue reading

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HPR Episode 3 tips posted.

Three bash tips from HPR 185. Progress updates with a bash loop, speeding up podcasts and copying directories with tar. Continue reading

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DVD to mp4 (h264) conversion

Following on on from what’s becoming a mini series on data archiving from the Linux command line, I want to talk about backing up DVD’s via the command line. I’m not going to insult your intelligence with the lecture about … Continue reading

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Finding the leaves in a tree

I often have deep directory trees where I am only interested in the deepest layers and not the supporting sub directories. An example of this might be a music collection where you have moved all your albums into directories based … Continue reading

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DNS working but not resolving

I’ve had a funny situation on a Solaris 10 box where DNS appeared to be working but domain names were not returning. I was able to configm DNS was working using dig $ dig www.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> … Continue reading

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