-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ah thx. I did for $file in *.mp3; do lame --decode "$file" "${file=mp3/wav}" and it works as it should. On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > You could quote thename or use one of the many ${ ...} to get rid of > an extention. If I remember %% gets rid of a string at the end of a > parameter. > > on Thu, 19 May 2005 17:13:54 -0400 Igor Gueths <igueths at lava-net.com> wrote: > > > Hi all. The subject pretty much nails it...I've been trying to find a way to truncate the ugly extensions that Lame leaves behind when batch-transcoding i.e., foo.mp3.wav. Currently, I've > > managed to come up with the following: > > for file in *.mp3 > > do > > lame --decode $file ${file/mp3/wav} > > done > > > > When I run the above, I get an error from Lame-3.96.1 about an excessive number of arguments. When I run it in a script with #!/bin/bash -x, I found that the filenames aren't being escaped as > > they should. Anyone know how I would correct it so that it works on files with whitespace? Thanks! > > -- > > How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? > > -- Alan Cox > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? - -- Alan Cox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQo9Ex6e2pgKIdGq4AQoYTg//VaXSAclVciYJdfWvCq5IdHL0CE1Zgl/J EACNVfu+OVK6sILI3yahhRRbbxX5g54Zp9RabB+/5DlJ6+5tTgw62+tl+7uqKHCj 15wKH8RILd9CnS0ZlLdl8PMXCq0cVs1kRLlDeH3sEYkFixW05368uqNxPsvwO111 0mBjStW3joJ/dF+OO5lGkeNx11kLR19subsAnPwNnORggGI1/I2Reff5SDDHTgwY KS07LCF6U0Y6VHRQwI0AWKylMIPEg3nY2V65xH7113eX3e+Mx5OPci9BHAY1Mq5w ViPRwqT9RqE9C1IiWxyYkURP7Ttf/R362dRzn6BdKKnBKJU/NDxtKS2AJutBXhyV eHEWYY4tq2pt4Q/4CPI0r3zx7tZ/aKrTB6+1aII9/VB2eEick77gyPH+rtorQNAW kpdVVGl/jjcluEzlScA4D8DL4RgFNeSDb6LsMtDdR0O1+ZTmE4bbh42iZ4Eqz8iT 6rBX8bLjWa4/mPl/Jb9UCSBdhqBjsQQc5/IWsJ7+6U+vNghGTh/5EYGngfov7WaX vbqAgYIrR0M8xk494dYBCrTyFgIy9YZuofwYVRMzScnZr4yAfxEbaW8P0sjn7rmw bAckSUnhrH56sYUjS1jDMc2260LJamir6aVAY58lmh472BspTKVsTHIP8sAmGw5G 6L/iWJdwqUE= =wNeX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----