I would like to make a script for a command that won't take wild card values. The command I want to automate is 'shorten -k *.shn' which will append seek tables to .shn files. When I invoke this command now in a directory full of .shn files I get this error: 'shorten: too many filenames' so I have to do it manually for each file. I don't know why it won't accept the wild card value like most commands do, if it did I would just do 'shorten -k *.shn' which is easy enough. Can anyone give me advice on making a script to do this?

Thanks for your time.

find . -name "*.shn" -exec shorten -k {} \;

watch the spaces

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Thanks a lot.

this is the script way to do it.


for a in *.shn ; do
shorten -k "$a"
done

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I had been fighting with this for awhile and was very close to having what you wrote there but had a few things wrong, thanks again.