Am 28. Jan, 2002 schwätzte Lynn David Newton so:

> for i in *.mp3
> do
> j=`basename $i .mp3`
> mp32wav $i $j.wav
> done

for i in *.mp3
do
        mp32wav $i ${i%mp3}wav
        # use a hash, #, to change something at the front
done

Also, for those who forget about it as I often do, dirname is the match to
basename. Both are good functions and valuable for shell scripting.

ciao,

der.hans
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