Bash One-Liners Explained, Part I: Working with files

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November 29, 2012, 00:44

No mention of for loops? For example,

for f in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -vn "${f/%avi/mp3}"; done

will convert every avi file in a directory into an MP3. I'm sure you could come up with a more appropriate example using standard bash commands.

Other than that, this is a really neat collection of tips and I've learned some things that I'll use in the future, thank you.

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