ok heres what happened since my last email. I put both my files on my mp3 player to carry to work where i would mess around with it on Windoze Movie maker. Then at 6.18 in the morning i rose to find another email by a Robert McWilliam. I read what he wrote and seeing how it was almost time for me to get up anyway (Id been dreaming of joining files too). So i read his instructions. Carefully going through his instructions i found that the path i had put was not actually correct. So i corrected it. and then i copied and pasted both command lines into terminal. and behold there infront of me was the desired "joined" file.
Just wana say a BIG thank you to all who took the time out in helping me in this! Thank you :) On 21/01/2008, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:46:03PM +0000, Javad Ayaz wrote: > > well > > cd /media/sda5/Nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/ cat mehndi1.vob mehndi2.vob > > > mehndi_joined.vob > > > > OK, quick command line primer. Each program you want to run should > either be at the start of the line or be indicated in some other way > that it is a program[1]. After the program name in a command line will > come any arguments that you want to give the program, these should be > separated by spaces. The fact that spaces separate arguments is one of > the problems you've got as there is a space in the path you want to > use as an argument. In this case you have to tell the shell that this > space is part of a single argument not separating two. The easiest way > to do this is to put double quotes round the argument. > > What you have mentioned above is actually two commands, did you run it > as two commands or as one? > > 1st command (including fix for the space): > cd "/media/sda5/Nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/" > > This will change the working directory to the path specified. > > 2nd command: > cat mehndil1.vob mehndi2.vob > mehndi_joined.vob > > This calls cat on the first two files, and redirects the output to > mehndi_joined.vob. cat conCATenates multiple files together and > outputs the results to the standard output. The > symbol redirects the > standard output from the preceding command to somewhere else, in this > case the file specified. > > > still resulted in nothing! :( > > I'm willing to bet money it didn't ;) It probably didn't do what was > desired but telling us what did happen (Were there any error messages? > What were they? Was the computer busy for a while? ...) makes it > easier to figure out where things went wrong. > > All that being said importing the two files to whichever video editor > you were using is probably an easier approach if you're not > comfortable with the command line. > > Robert > > [1] e.g. what follows a | symbol is another program, this means that > the output of the command in front of the | is the input for the > command following the | > If that made no sense don't worry about it too much. > > ________________________________________________________ > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com > > What if the Hokey Kokey IS what it's all about? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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