Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[George OLson <grglsn765@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/28/2011 10:05 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 28/08/11 18:40, George OLson wrote:

> Do yourself one big and great favour: install mc (Midnight Commander)
> and use it for almost all directory/file work.
>
> When you have it installed, create a directory in your home with a name
> of your choice; run mc from a command line in the konsole and select
> Command>Find File. Type in *.mp4 in the search field and type in "/" as
> the starting point. Let mc find all the files on your system (including
> any in your Windows installation - provided that the Windows partitions
> have been mounted of course) and after mc has found all the *.mp4 files
> select the option at the bottom of the search window called Panelize;
> this will put all the directories and the *.mp4 files within them into a
> panel on the left side of mc. Then using F6 (but preferrably F5 at your
> level of experience) copy (F5) or F6 (move) those files to the newly
> created directory in your home directory which you can find on the right
> side of mc.
>
> I will leave it to you to work out how to select all those *.mp4 files
> in the panel. However, I will you give you a hint: if you press the "+"
> key on the numeric keypad then type in "*.mp4" all such files will be
> highlighted in yellow.

WOW - that did exactly what I wanted it to do and FAST! Thanks so much 
for that suggestion! My next challenge will be to burn all those m4p 
files to audio cds so that I can rip them back to mp3 without digital 
rights management. It shouldn't take too long - there are a little under 
200 of them, I think.

George

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