BASH, SED & AWK
BASH, SED & AWK
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I was given a USB stick with 18,000 PowerPoint files with the .ppt extension dating from 2005, of which each document is a manually scanned page of sheet music. This was done by a diligent soul some years ago, who knew little about the pernicious ways in which the Big Tech Companies even back then operated to ensure that the data formats for digital artefacts regularly change in order to force users to constantly upgrade their expensive software. No surprise then that files produced by the version of PowerPoint back in 2005 is not recognised by the more recent versions of PowerPoint. So all this hard work appears to be entirely useless. Or is it?
Read more: Converting 1000's of old version Office Files to PDF files
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Check this out! Impress girls with your BASH skills. Be the coolest kid on the block. Get invited to all the parties. Get everyone to buy you beer, etc...
Here are some cool tricks to use in BASH.
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I have scrounged 3500-odd DX7 synthesizer voice files from various sources, and many have similar names. For the DX7 emulator to access them all, they need to be in only one directory, ~/sysex/voice. and each filename must start with a unique 6-digit prefix. Here is how to apply such a sequential, unique prefix to a bunch of files in a directory: