On Saturday 17 May 2008 06:33, Rodney Baker wrote:
Hi all.
I have a few directories containing wav files that have been ripped from CDs and I'm trying to write a script to invoke sox to convert them to mp3 format.
The filenames have whitespaces and hyphens in them e.g. 'artist - 01 - title with many words.wav'. I tried the following script but I'm obviously doing something wrong...
#!/bin/bash
for file in `find * -print0 | xargs --null`
The way you're using xargs is essentially a no-op here, since the output is no different than if you skipped the xargs part. However, if you put the action code into a separately executable script file that takes multiple arguments and gave that command to xargs, you'd have what you want. So if your script was something like this: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- #!/bin/bash --norc for arg; do # Do stuff with "$arg" (always quote it!) done -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Then just invoke it like this: % for file in $(find * -print0 | xargs --null scriptName)
do { ... } done
By the way, these braces are redundant.
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I seem to be just going around in circles here. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org