Scripting help

[Shawn Badger]

Same result with and without the -1 :(


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> Eric Shubert wrote:
> > Shawn Badger wrote:
> >> I have bee playing with this script for a while and I can't seem to find
> >> the magic to make it work right. The script basically takes all the avi
> >> files in in a folder and converts them to flash.
> >> Here is the simple script:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> ls *.avi|cut -d. -f1 | while read i
> >>     do
> >>     echo "this is the file "$i
> >>     ffmpeg -i $i.avi -ar 22050 -f flv ./flv/$i.flv
> >>     done
> >>
> >>
> >> The script does the first file it finds and then exits with no errors.
> >> If I comment out the ffmpeg line it runs as expected though all the
> files.
> >>
> >> Oh, I need to allow for spaces in the file names as well.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ls *.avi | while read fileavi
> > do
> >    filebase="${fileavi%.avi}"
> >    echo "this is the file: \"$filebase\""
> >    ffmpeg -i "$fileavi" -ar 22050 -f flv "./flv/$filebase.flv"
> > done
> >
>
> You'll need the -1 option on the ls command so that each file is on a
> separate line, and the read command will read the whole filename with
> spaces.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
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