Re: shell script question

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:18:11 -0400 Jeff Elkins wrote:
> 
> In the same vein, I'm working through a list of mp3s where some of them need 
> re-encoding. First, I convert them to wavs with this script fragment:
> 
> mpg123 -b 10000 -s "$1" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "$2"
> 
> where I feed the script $1 (input) and $2 (output). In every case, $1 and $2 
> are the same, except for $2 I want the output filename to have a .wav 
> extension.
> 
> Could I alter the script to eliminate entering $2, since the basic filename is 
> the same?

man basename (the suffix bit).

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