Re: Scripting help

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Author: Eric Shubert
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Scripting help
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

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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