>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> writes: > You would still have rename the file extention: > for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "`echo $FILE > |sed s/.wav/.mp3/g ` " ; done Or just use the shell itself: for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 \"$FILE\" \"${FILE%.*}.mp3\"; done Mike