[linux-audio-user] ardour and mp3?

Brian Dunn job17and9 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 6 14:49:09 EST 2007


Adam Sampson wrote:
> Brian Dunn <job17and9 at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>   
>> for i in `ls *.mp3`; do
>>     
>
> That won't work if the filenames contain spaces (since the shell will
> split ls's output on spaces), and it's needlessly inefficient. It's
> better to say:
>
>   for i in *.mp3; do
>
> or if you really do want to use the output of a command, then:
>
>   find . -name '*.mp3' | while read i; do
>
> (Not supporting spaces in filenames in the modern world is silly --
> particularly for music files! Newlines I'm less concerned about...)
>
>   
Well, I stand corrected I've never used that while syntax before.  It 
looks useful. thanks.



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