Am 30. Jan, 2002 schwätzte Nick Estes so:
> Be careful when using sed to change extensions, what if you have an mp3
> called something like "foo thump3.mp3", sed will turn it into "foo
> thuwav.mp3". I know it's not as cool as using sed to do it, but basename
> generally leads to more consistent results in this case.
>
> o="$(basename $i .mp3).wav"
Here you look for .mp3 rather than just mp3. The real key, though, is
looking for a pattern at the end of the string. How do you do that in sed?
perl -e "s/\.mp3$/.wav/;"
That's what you need in the sed match and replace.
ciao,
der.hans
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