i have posted this on newbie but had no repsonse, after playing around i have found that the section in my little script that says `ls *.wav` is probably my problem, reading 'man ls' i changed it to `ls -Q *.wav` but this didn't work, then i discovered something wierd, if i do: $ls -Q *.wav i get the following: <snip> "11_move on.wav" "26_i don't know why.wav" "12_leon.wav" "27_a man's job.wav" "13_itch.wav" "28_it's too bad.wav" "14_wake up.wav" "29_do you love me.wav" "15_what generation are you.wav" i.e. a list of filenames with the ""around them, job done i thought, but to test i did: $ for file in `ls -Q *.wav`;do echo "$file";done and this gave me: <snip> "26_i don't know why.wav" "27_a man's job.wav" "28_it's too bad.wav" "29_do you love me.wav" as you can see, i get a list of each individual 'word' in the filenames, can someone help or explain this for me? bascule ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [newbie] filenames with spaces causing error in script Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:44:49 +0100 From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have also tried the following: $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 "$file" "`basename "$file" .wav`".mp3;done i think this is fine apart from the first line, i think this is feeding each seperate word in a filename as a filename to the lame command, i think that it might actually be complicated to return a list of files that have spacenames and assign each whole filename to a variable am i wrong? bascule On Thursday 13 September 2001 10:18 pm, I wrote: > hi, > i have used the following to convert some homemade wavs into mp3s: > $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 $file `basename $file > .wav`.mp3;done > > it works fine except for file names with spaces, i can't work out how to > rectify this, i have also tried: > $ for file in `ls *.wav`;do lame -b 256 -q 0 "$file" "`basename $file > .wav`.mp3";done > > and > $ for file in "`ls *.wav`";do lame -b 256 -q 0 "$file" "`basename $file > .wav`".mp3;done > > as you can see i've tried using "" around references to file names but this > hasn't helped, could someone please help me out > > tia > > bascule -------------------------------------------------------
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