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



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On 08/09/07 11:51, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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.

Or use basename(1).


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