bascule wrote: >thanks jipe, >still reading up on echo to try and understand your line: >IFS=$(echo -e "\n\r\t") > >the '-q O' is in fact a '-q 0', perhaps your font makes them look similar? > >On Saturday 15 September 2001 2:25 am, you wrote: > >>but r u sure about -q O? the version i run doesn't accept >>them....(lame-3.22b-1) >> > >bascule > in that case, by setting this environmental variable, i allow the script to use filenames with spaces or other characters. especially when reading the ouput of ls *.wav. try it with or without this line and you'll see the difference. better than all explanations that i could give to you (with my approximative english!), look at this url for more explanations about bash scripting in general and IFS in particular: www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/ this kind of script runs fine for me, and can be used in other ways (with adaptations), like mp3->wav conversion, or integrated in another script,for exemple to burn a cdaudio directly from mp3 files.... etc etc bye jipe
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