[Fedora] pipe ls to lame syntax

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

hawat.thufir at gmail.com wrote:

> I know it's something like:
>
> $ls $a | lame $a.mp3
>
> if I end up with one.wav.mp3 no biggie, and speed doesn't matter, I'm 
> just trying to get *some* automation.

    Why not:

    # for file in *.wav ; do lame -h $file `basename $file .wav`.mp3 ; done

    This assumes that your file names do not contain spaces in them.  
Otherwise you'll have to wrap $file in quotes:

    ...do lame -h "$file" `basename "$file" .wav`.mp3 ...

    The -h option after lame is just a suggestion.  You obviously know 
what options you want to use.

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