Convert .flac and .ape to mp3

[Ultima]

Actually, that wont work either. I decided to go look at some of my scripts
where I had to do something similar, the solution was setting IFS.

IFS=$'\n'

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:34 AM, Ultima <ultima1252 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ah, yeah sorry I didn't understand the problem.
>
> find . -iname "*.ape" -exec echo \"{}\" \;
>
> This should be a solution.
>
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su>
> wrote:
>
>> Ultima wrote:
>> > > So eventually I will need to write a script to process all the *.ape
>> > > files, probably with bchunk. Which brings the following question. If
>> > > the file and directory names have spaces in them, a simple loop like
>> > > this:
>> > >
>> > > #!/bin/sh
>> > > for i in `find . -iname '*.ape'`
>> > > do
>> > >   do_something $i
>> > > done
>> > >
>> > > breaks on spaces.
>> > >
>> > > What is the sh magic to handle such filenames?
>>
>> > do_something "$i"
>>
>> Nope, these quotes make no difference, they are too late.
>>
>> The problem is in the "for " line, it cannot differentiate spaces _in_
>> filenames and _between_ filenames. Look:
>>
>> $ touch "this is a long file name.ape"
>> $ ~/bin/ape2mp3.sh
>> + find . -iname '*.ape'
>> + echo ./this
>> ./this
>> + echo is
>> is
>> + echo a
>> a
>> + echo long
>> long
>> + echo file
>> file
>> + echo name.ape
>> name.ape
>> $
>>
>> I'm sure the solution exists, it must be a very common case.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
>> AS43859
>>
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