On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:24, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music
> directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full
> path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in
> between directories. The best I can do so far is :
> ls -R /home/mp3 | (read filename; while [ ! -z "$filename" ]; do echo
> "${filename//mp3/ }" >> mp3.list; read filename; done)
> This strips the extensions (almost all mp3's - built up from before I
> found out about Ogg Vorbis), but I'm left with the full path and no
> blank line between directories. I seem to think the blank line could be
> inserted by a "if filename is a directory, then echo "$filename" >>
> mp3.list followed by \n", but I can't quite work out how to do it. man
> bash is giving me a headache, and I thought I'd turn to you guys and
> gals.
> Any thoughts?
The find command with a tricky ytuned print command in it would be
better I guess. Just have a look at the man pages.
Bye, Steffen
