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I am writing a shell script to convert APE to FLAC files for my Grateful Dead live show collection. The problem is, the resulting filename is *.ape.flac, and I want to drop the .ape part somehow....maybe sed? I don't know, I'm a newbie at shell scripting (but not programming)....not looking for a howto...just the best way to accomplish this small task. Thank you.

I love shell questions! :)

I think piping the output of an ls into a loop, and sed'ing (as you suggested) the filename is the way to go here. Be careful with typing all the different types of quotes!

Code:

ls *.ape.* | while read file; do mv "$file" "`echo $file | sed 's/\.ape\././'`"; done

A test i used to check that the above works, even if spaces are included in the filename:

Code:

$ touch "the planet of the apes.ape.flac"

$ ls *.ape.* | while read file; do mv "$file" "`echo $file | sed 's/\.ape\././'`"; done

$ ls

the planet of the apes.flac

Let me know how it goes please,
Mark.

Thanks for the quick reply...I'm going to try it right now...

Edit: Success. Thank you very much for the example...I'm going to leave it at that because it works perfectly. In a few I will post the entire shell script for anyone interested.

Some might find this useful, who knows...

Code:

# ape2flac

# converts monkey's audio files to flac format

# required: mac, flac, cfv

#        mac: http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk...nary_Linux.zip

#      flac: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/f...ar.gz?download

#        cfv: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/c...ar.gz?download

# by axion@37.com



# define variables

export MAC="/usr/bin/mac"

export FLAC="/usr/bin/flac"

export ENCODE="$FLAC -8"



# search recursively for ape files and decode to wav any found

find . -name '*.ape' -exec $MAC {} {}.wav -d \;

ls *.ape.* | while read file; do mv "$file" "`echo $file | sed 's/\.ape\././'`"; done



# encode wav files to flac

find . -name '*.wav' -exec $ENCODE {} \;



# delete any leftover ape or wav files

find . -name '*.ape' -exec rm -f {} \;

find . -name '*.wav' -exec rm -f {} \;



# generate playlist and checksums

find * -type f -name '*.flac' > "00 - playlist.m3u"

/usr/local/bin/cfv -C -t md5 -f "00 - checksums.md5" *.flac

/usr/local/bin/cfv -C -t sfv -f "00 - checksums.sfv" *.flac

the rename command is simple. i used this for re-encoding some mp3's.
for a in * ; do
cd "$a"
for i in *.mp3 ; do
nice -n 15 lame --preset 150 -b 64 -B 224 --lowpass 17k "$i"
rm "$i"
done
rename .mp3.mp3 .mp3 *
cd ..
done

that was to go through a bunch of directories. rename takes 3 arguments. the text you wish to change, what to change it to, and what files to perform the changes on.
so rename ".ape.flac" ".flac" *.flac would be good for you.