> I have a bunch (several hundred) of .wma files that I want to
> convert to ogg or mp3. So I wrote a script to find and process
> each file.
>
> The problem is that there are spaces in the file and directory
> names which I inherited from a windows machine.
>
> Currently my script looks like this:
>
> for File in "`find $Dir -name '*.wma' -print0|xargs -0 ls`" ;do
> echo " $File"
> #mplayer -ao pcm "$File"
> done
>
> The problem is that it processes the whole bunch first time
> through, not one at a time which is of course what I need.
I think you are making this way too complicated. Have you tried
something like:
find $DIR -name '*.wma' -exec mplayer -ao pcm {} \;
find with -exec is a very useful tool.
~ Daniel
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