[Techtalk] Question: sed s option in a shell script

[namik.dala at web.de]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:41:30PM -0800, Sabine Konhaeuser wrote:
> for FILE in *."$OLDSUFFIX"
> do
>      NEWNAME=?"$FILE" | sed -e "s/$OLDSUFFIX/$NEWSUFFIX/"?
>      lame --preset standard "$FILE" "$NEWNAME"
> done

No need for external programs here:

for FILE in *.wav
do
	lame --preset standard "$FILE" "${FILE%.wav}.mp3"
done

/Namik