On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:13:13 +0200 Jan Weil <Jan.Weil@xxxxxx> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.06.2008, 14:02 +0100 schrieb Chris Cannam: > > On 06/06/2008, M-.-n <nostromo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > [...] a script that I run after I checked it looks right > > > > In that situation (where I'm not totally confident of my syntax) I > > generally just start off using "echo" or something equally innocuous > > instead of the command I really want to run. > > > > e.g. for the loop I mentioned in my previous mail, start by running > > > > for x in *.wav; do > > echo -t 0.8 "$x" "${x%%.wav}-100.wav" > > done > > > > then if that looks right, just up-arrow and replace echo with > > rubberband or whatever your program is. > > > > Doesn't work if your first argument happens to be one of those also > > accepted by echo, of course. Also doesn't tell you whether you've > > handled spaces in the filenames correctly or not. > > Regarding spaces in file names - took me a while to learn but now it > comes in very handy (again Bash): > > export IFS=$'\n'; for i in *.wav; do rubberband -T1.25 $i ${i%.wav}-100.wav; done i spent far too long looking for that little gem myself. you want to be careful to restore the IFS if running in your shell and not a script though. it might affect later commands. </pedantry> also, i've since found that you can achieve the same result by quoting the output expansion string, ie: for i in *.wav; do rubberband -T1.25 $i "${i%.wav}"-100.wav; done because wildcarded filenames are parsed as a whole on the input side, regardless of spaces. cheers, pete. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user