[Sussex] script help?

[Steve Dobson]

Matt

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:50:38PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> I'm trying to index my real audio collection into a playlist for a
> friend, but it seems to eed the "file://" on the front of the file name,
> so 
> 
> ls *.ra >> playlist.ram
> 
> won't work.
> 
> I've tried 
> 
> echo "file://`ls *.ra`" >> playlist.ram
> 
> but that didn't seem to work either.  I think that this week has shown
> that my knowledge of linux is not where I thought it was!
> 
> if any one's able to help, that would be great!

I'm assuming that every file needs to be pre-fixed with "file://"
then this should do if for you:
   ls *.ra | sed -e 's.^.file://.'

Steve

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