pipe ls to lame syntax

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:25 -0500, hawat.thufir at gmail.com wrote:
> I can't find an example to work from, so I'll just ask.
> 
> In a directory I have some .wav files which I'd like to en-masse turn into 
> mp3's.
> 
> $ls
> one.wav two.wav three.wav
> 
> $lame one.wav one.mp3
> ...
> 
> 
> I know it's something like:
> 
> $ls $a | lame $a.mp3

ls |while read file; do
  mp3="`echo $file |sed s?"\.wav$"?"\.mp3"?
  lame --preset standard '$file' '$mp3'
done

(not actually tried)