Hi, what is going on here is that the for loop is iterating over EACH element in `ls -Q *.wav`, which returns each song title surrounded by quotes, which don't make a difference, as it is seperating the "list" into elements by splitting on spaces. David Charles On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, bascule wrote: > 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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