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

[Dan]

This discussion is a classic example of how geeks can't resist a chance 
to optimise or improve.

>>	lame --preset standard "$FILE" "${FILE%.wav}.mp3"
> 
> It seems lame does not like curly brackets.

lame shouldn't see the curly brackets. The "${FILE%.wav}" expands to the 
same thing as $FILE, minus the the ".wav" at the end. However, it only 
works in bash.

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