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Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?



On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:25:20 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl?
> 
>     Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python.
> 
> >   for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "$FILE.mp3"; done
> 
>     Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with with a bunch of
> files named blahblah.wav.mp3?

[...]

>     So now we have to strip stuff out of the filename which involves at least
> a call to cut (properly escaped, of course).  Meh, even simple examples in
> shell should be avoided.

You don't need to use cut; bash can do it directly if you use
"${FILE%wav}mp3" as the output filename in the for loop.

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