On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Robin Laing wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear folks, > > Sorry if this has been asked many times but I need > > your help. I need to rename some music files that I > > created using lame to simply file.mp3 instead of the > > file.wav.mp3 format that they are in. I copied a > > script from the internet but it did not work to encode > > mp3 and I modified it so that I could get some output > > and it came to *.wav.mp3 > > Here's the script #!/bin/sh > > for i in *.[wW][aA][vV]; do > > lame "$i" "$i".mp3 > > done > > > > The resultant mp3 files had the *.wav.mp3 as I do not > > know how to modify the results. > > > > Regards, > > > > Antonio > > > > Years ago when I was really trying to learn perl I cam across this little > program in a perl book. I think it was an O'Reilly's book. just from memory, won't the "rename" command do this? rday
