I strong, STRONGLY *STRONGLY recommend *not* doing file manipulations on audio files inside the shell. the proliferation of what once would have been considered "wierd" names for files makes this extremely "risky". it is very hard to prevent the shell from somehow getting stuff wrong when the filenames can include ' or " or $ themselves. use perl or python to do what you want, and thus avoid every issue with shell globbing etc. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user