You might try this if you have bash available:
#!/bin/bash
# take all avi files in the current directory
# and transcode to Flash (flv) video files in the flv subdirectory.

for filename in *.avi ; do
  local basename=${filename%.avi}
  echo file base name is ${basename}
  ffmpeg -i "${basename}.avi" -ar 22050 -f flv "./flv/${basename}.flv"
done

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?
> 
> 
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