truncating file extensions

[Igor Gueths]

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Ah thx. I did for $file in *.mp3; do
lame --decode "$file" "${file=mp3/wav}" and it works as it should.
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> 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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How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks?
- -- Alan Cox
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