Re: Need help with scripting

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:48, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:
> Hi all.
> Im sorting out my 2000+ mp3 files.
> Some of them i want to convert to wav files of various reasons.
> Its a rather boring job to do that manualy so i thought i would write a
> script. Im VERY inexperienced in this so help is needed.
> Ive got this far:
>
> ken@pingu:~/brenning/test$ cat skript
> #!/bin/bash
> clear
> echo "type name of file that shall go from  mp3 to wav"
> echo "ending of file is mp3.wav not solved yet"
> read filename
> mkdir wavfiles
> mpg321 --w  $filename.wav $filename
> #rm -rf $filename
> mv $filename.wav wavfiles
>

#!/bin/sh

if [! -d wavfiles ]; then
    mkdir wavfiles
fi

for file in $@; do
    base=`basename $file .mp3`
    mpg321 --w ${base}.wav $file
    mv ${base}.wav wavfiles
done

and you can call it:

skript alice_in_chains*