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Thanks to my fiance, I’m now Eee 1000 owner. It’s so cute, i like it a lot . The question, what Linux distributive should i install there?
I have Arch on my desktop, and i love it, but I’d like to get something ready for Eee out of the box. Currently, the best solution looks Ubuntu Eee, but i’ll probably look for more options.

eee, linux, ubuntu, archlinux

Overflow in shell script… while it sounds strange, it actually happened to me . I have a script which does recoding of mp3 files in order to reduce bitrate and space those files take. I tried to be smart and first detect the bitrate in order to avoid redundant recoding. Well, my script actually worked for a long time, but then it refused to recode file with bitrate 256 .
It was my fault of course. In order to determine the bitrate, i used the following ash function:
# function to determine bitrate:
# expects a file as parameter
determine_birate() {
    if [ -z “$1″ ]
    then
        return 0 # invalid
    fi
   
    if [[ “${MP3INFO}” == “” ]]
    then
        return 1 # invalid
    fi

    return `”${MP3INFO}” -p “%r” “$1″`
}
MP3INFO is an application i use in order to read mp3 files meta data. Well, when the bitrate was 256 i got 0 returned, i guess bash has some limit of 1 byte somewhere . My quick fix was (and now it works great):
# function to determine bitrate:
# expects a file as parameter
determine_birate() {
    if [ -z “$1″ ]
    then
        return 0 # invalid
    fi
   
    if [[ “${MP3INFO}” == “” ]]
    then
        return 1 # invalid
    fi

    echo `”${MP3INFO}” -p “%r” “$1″`
}
….
CURRENT_BITRATE=`determine_birate “$file”`

bash, programming, cli, linux, overflow