On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good > web site on this topic? > > For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a > directory which will create a new file, so I need to do > > command file1.wav file1-convert.wav > > I need to take each name, create a new name to build the actual > command that gets run and then do that for every file in the > directory, or even in a hierarchy of directories. > > Thanks, > Mark
For bash / zsh and other advanced(?-) shells:
for f in *.wav; do command "$f" "${f/.wav/-convert.wav}";done
The " " are there to prevent files with spaces in them (evil!) from
becoming too annoying and appearing as multiple commandline arguments.
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