truncating file extensions

[John Covici]

You could quote thename or use one of the many ${ ...} to get rid of
an extention.  If I remember %% gets rid of a string at the end of a
parameter.

on Thu, 19 May 2005 17:13:54 -0400 Igor Gueths <igueths at lava-net.com> wrote:

> Hi all. The subject pretty much nails it...I've been trying to find a way to truncate the ugly extensions that Lame leaves behind when batch-transcoding i.e., foo.mp3.wav. Currently, I've 
> managed to come up with the following:
> for file in *.mp3
> do
> lame --decode $file ${file/mp3/wav}
> done
>
> When I run the above, I get an error from Lame-3.96.1 about an excessive number of arguments. When I run it in a script with #!/bin/bash -x, I found that the filenames aren't being escaped as 
> they should. Anyone know how I would correct it so that it works on files with whitespace? Thanks!
> -- 
> How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks?
> -- Alan Cox
>
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