On 27/11/10 17:14, Terry Coles wrote:
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> OK. I've started trying to put together a script that will sort my tracks.
> I've found two useful scripts on the web; one to create a list of filenames
> in
> a directory and one to parse out the ID3 tags. I've started with the list of
> filenames, but I have a problem.
>
> All of the existing files have been autogenerated by various tools and have
> filenames like:
>
> 12 - Largo, from _the New World_.mp3
>
> When I just put one of these files into a Test directory and run the filename
> script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> directorytols=$1
> for filename in $( ls "$directorytols")
> do
> if [ -d "$filename" ] ; then
> echo "Directory: $filename"
> elif [ -h "$filename" ] ; then
> echo "Symlink: $filename"
> else
> echo "File: $filename"
> fi
> done
>
> I get:
>
> te...@beige:~/Scratch/Test$ ./ListDirectory MP3s
> File: 12
> File: -
> File: Largo,
> File: from
> File: _the
> File: New
> File: World_.mp3
>
> Clearly, this script is stumbling over the spaces in the filenames.
>
> Normally, I never put spaces in filenames, precisely to prevent problems like
> this, but I didn't generate this filename (and I have over 600 files like
> this). Any thoughts on how to fix this?
>
Sorry to be lazy and just dump the text on you, but hopefully you can
adapt it:
#!/bin/bash
O=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for each in `ls -1 *.wav`
do
sox --norm "$each" -r 44100 -b 16 resampled_"$each"
done
IFS=$O
Right, off to cook the tea, so HTH!
Sean
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