Carla Schroder said: > hiya ace audio-heads, > > Being as how I'm a sucky scripter, though improving through diligence, > hard > work, and pestering people who are good at scripting, I was wondering if > there was a way to improve this process. I want to do batch file > conversions > in sox, it has no built-in batch functions. This command works OK: > > $ for i in `ls *.wav`; do echo -e "$i"; sox $i $i.cdr; echo -e "$i.cdr"; > done > > But the results are like this: > > KDE_Logout_new.wav > KDE_Logout_new.wav.cdr > new_game.wav > new_game.wav.cdr > > So, sed to the rescue: > > $ for FILE in *.wav ; do ( sox $FILE `echo $FILE.cdr | sed -e 's/\.wav//'` > ) ; > done > > $ ls > KDE_Logout_new.cdr > new_game.cdr > > Is there a more streamlined way to do this? or a better utility than sox?
Try using basename Here's the example: for i in `ls *.wav`; do echo -e "$i"; sox $i `basename $i .wav`.cdr; done -Ken _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
