[NTLUG:Discuss] Trivial MP3 conversion script

[Russell Lemburg]

Logically , I'd set up a parser to find ".wma" and replace it with an empty
string.

This should work ...
rename 's/\.wma.mp3$/\.mp3/' *.wma.mp3


On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Daniel Hauck <daniel at yacg.com> wrote:

> I did this:
>
> for i in *.[Ww][Mm][Aa]; do lame $i ; done
>
>
> The intent and purpose is to convert all WMA files in a folder over to
> MP3.  It works, but it leaves "wma" in the resulting filename.
>
> For example, there is a file called "song.wma" and I run lame against
> it, the resulting output file is "song.wma.mp3"
>
> How can I take the extension off of the file list and then process like
> this?
>
> ... do lame $i.[Ww][Mm][Aa] $i.mp3; done
>
> What magic code strips off the ".wma"?
>
>
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