[Gllug] batch convert

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 11:44 am, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:18:45AM +1300, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 10:29 am, Stig spake thus:
> > > It is easiest to be sure by using find, thus:
> > >
> > > 	find ~/music -name "*.mp3" -exec resample_mp3_application "{}" ";"
> >
> > Cool, but if I needed to do something more tricky, how do I use the
> >
> > for f in $files; do
>
> something to "$f";
> done
>
> Should do the trick.

Ah, but it doesn't.

If I had these two files:

ABBA - Money Money Money.mp3
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11, II. Allegro.mp3

and a loop:

for f in $files; do ... done

then $f would be:

ABBA
-
Money
Money
Money.mp3
Shostakovich
-
Symphony
No.
11,
Allegro.mp3

This is bad. I've tried fiddling with "", escaping with \, to no avail. I gave 
up in the end and did it by hand.

Tet's trick of putting them in a file and going head -1 would work though. 
Thanx Tet!

Luv Jon

-- 
Jonathan Harker
www.jonathanharker.co.uk

The Moral Majority is neither.


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