Re: Automatic way of applying the same command to a bunch of files

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Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks, Steven and Andy. The last Andy's solution works fine. However,
> with Steven's one, I get the following:
> 
> $ find . -name \*.wav -print0 | xargs -0 sox "{}" -r 44100 -t wav 
> "output_{}"
> sox: Can't open input file '{}': No such file or directory

To use the {} replacement for the file, xargs should have the -i
option:

    ... | xargs -0 -i sox '{}' ...

Of course, the xargs manpage says that -i is deprecacted and you
should instead use -I replace-str.  You can make things more readable
this way as well:

    ... | xargs -0 -I wav sox 'wav' ...

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