On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:25:20 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl?
>
> Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python.
>
> > for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "$FILE.mp3"; done
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with with a bunch of
> files named blahblah.wav.mp3?
[...]
> So now we have to strip stuff out of the filename which involves at least
> a call to cut (properly escaped, of course). Meh, even simple examples in
> shell should be avoided.
You don't need to use cut; bash can do it directly if you use
"${FILE%wav}mp3" as the output filename in the for loop.
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