[Techtalk] recording music CDs- batch conversions

[dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net]

Hi,

John Clarke <johnc+linuxchix at kirriwa.net> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:57AM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> [...]
>> $ for i in 'ls *.au';do echo -e "$i";sox $i.cdr;done

These are backticks ` ` I suppose: 
for i in `ls *.au` does nothing more than for i in *.au

>
> [...]
>     for i in `ls -1 *.au|cut -d. -f1`
>     do 
>         echo $i
>         sox $i.au $i.cdr
>         sox $i.cdr $i.wav
>     done

If the shell is Bash, might I suggest:

for i in *.au
do
        echo $i
        sox $i ${i%.au}.cdr
        sox ${i%.au}.cdr ${i%.au}.wav
done

or:
for i in *.au
do
        FILE=${i%.au}
        echo $FILE
        sox ${FILE}.au ${FILE}.cdr
        sox ${FILE}.cdr ${FILE}.wav
done

The ${i%xyz} notation cuts off "xyz" from the right side of $i.
cut -d. -f1 returns everything up to the first dot. If there 
are multiple dots in the file name, it fails.

regards
dominik 

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