A good introduction to shell scripting

Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst

Shell script to downsample podcasts

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have a very basic mp3 player with only 128 MB memory. I mostly listen to podcasts which are automatically downloaded by Amarok into the folder ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/data. In order to fit many of them to the limited memory and to have them available from anywhere, I have been writing a script that automatically downsamples them as they arrive and puts them online to my web server. The script is executed hourly by the crontab. The two relevant files look like this:

Shell Scripting on Michael’s Domain

A good introduction to shell scripting

Shell script to downsample podcasts