Re: Writing scripts and online support

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

* "JP" == JP Sartre <jpsartre@home.com> wrote:

JP> Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks,
JP> as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from
JP> going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday)
JP> are there any good online sources for basic script writing?

Not for you, but for any german speaking readers who might read this
message:

http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/artikel/unix/shellprogrammierung/

JP> For instance, I would like to rename some wav files to 01.wav,
JP> 02.wav etc. and renaming 01-A_Wav.wav and 02-Another_Wav.wav to
JP> 01.wav and 02.wav seems tedious. I know a simple script file could
JP> do this.

mmv "[0-9][0-9]_*.wav" "#1#2.wav"

package mmv.

Ciao,
        Martin