On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:27, Brian Parish wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:44, HaywireMac wrote:
> > On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:36:28 -0700
> > Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> >
> > > hell, this is a one-liner :-)
> > >
> > > for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i; done
> >
> > alias that sucker in your .bashrc like this:
> >
> > function mp3enc() { for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i;
> > done }
> >
> > and in reverse:
> >
> > function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i
> > .mp3`.wav; done; }
> >
> > the only problem you might run into is if the filenames have spaces, so,
> > do this first:
> >
> > for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`;done;
>
> Being a total newb when it comes to shell programing, I found this to be
> a great tip (having just spent considerable time writing a much longer
> script to do the same thing *).
>
> Is there an equally simple way to truncate file names to remove unwanted
> characters from the end? I of course would never dream of downloading
> anything using gnutella, but should someone else do this and end up with
> lots of files ending in ".OK", it would be nice to process them in a
> similar way. Just theoretically of course.
>
> TIA
> Brian
>
> * It didn't work either!
>
Try giving tr nothing as a second option, or use sed (challenging,
better get an O'Reilly book).
Here's one that might help as an example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ cat bin/2lower.sh
#!/bin/sh
for i in *
do
j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
mv $i $j
done
It comes in handy when installing Quake 2 maps that were built on
Winders :-)
--
Jack Coates
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