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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org