[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic script question

[Fred James]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> Wondering if the list is still active. My first send of this post has 
> not appeared in my email.
>
> I need to set up why I am asking for help on a short notice.
>
> I am making a trip to the jungle of Papua New Guinea to make voice 
> recordings of people reading scripture in their native language. I 
> will be recording the whole book of Genesis with speakers for each 
> character in the book. I may do other books as well. In order to work 
> with other translation groups the files must be in a very specific 
> format with a predetermined file name sequence. After all the 
> recordings are done I need to retain the original chunks and assemble 
> the chunks into chapters. I can determine the start and stop filename 
> for each chapter. The files will be in a consistent WAV format. I 
> expect to use sox to join the WAV files for each speaker into a file 
> for each chapter. I have been planning this trip for some time. But 
> just received this new requirement to join the files today. I get on a 
> plane tomorrow and will have an Internet connection in country for 
> about two days before I head into the bush with solar panels and a 
> laptop.
>
> I need help with a basic script to join the files given a start and 
> stop filename and an explicit output file name as parameters. Input 
> file names look like this "P1MSYPBT_01973.wav, P1MSYPBT_01974.wav, 
> ...". The output file will look like this "P1MSYPBT_001_GEN_01.wav, 
> P1MSYPBT_001_GEN_02.wav, ...".
>
> I tried putting the files for a chapter in a separate directory and 
> running [for i in *.wav;do sox "$i" P1MSYPBT_001_GEN_01.wav;done]. But 
> it either got only the first file or left out the last file. It was 
> not consistent.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
I can only verify the list is active and that I got both of you emails, 
separately (9 Aug 9:35pm, and 10 Aug 9:23am ... I assume that is my 
local time, which is EDT).  Hope that helps, at least with that one part 
of it.
Regards
Fred James