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

Sabine Konhaeuser sjmk at gmx.net
Tue Mar 15 11:32:50 EST 2005


On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10, namik.dala at web.de wrote:
> 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

Hi Namik,

This causes an error with lame
lame: command not found

It seems lame does not like curly brackets.

Cheers,
-- 
Sabine


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