On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:06:14AM +0400, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello, > > I need to encode some WAV files into MP3. I'm planning to use Lame. > > Lame does not seem to accept wildcards, so I wrote a script-line: > > for a in *.wav; do lame --preset cbr 256 $a ; done > for a in *.wav; do lame $a `echo $a | sed 's/\(.*\)wav$/\1mp3/'`; done This one should work as long as your *.wav file names don't contain spaces etc. For reference, here is a mpp->ogg one-liner that handles those too: ls -Q *.mpc | sed 's/\(.*\)\.mpc\(.*\)/\$HOME\/bin\/mppdec \1.mpc\2 - | oggenc -o \1.ogg\2 -/' | sh cheers, Christian -- "Somewhere in Texas... a village is missing its idiot."