Automatic way of applying the same command to a bunch of files

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>> > I have in a directory a bunch of wav files to which I want to apply
>> > the following command:
>> >
>> > sox filename.wav -r 44100 output_filename.wav
>>
>> for i in `ls *.wav` ; do sox $i -r 44100 output_$i.wav ; done
>>
>> should do it.
> 
> Thanks, Andy. Unfortunately, the names of the wav files contain
> spaces, and therefore your solution does not work. The dir command
> produces:
> 
> 07\ Missa\ brevis.wav
> 08\ Missa\ brevis.wav
> [...]

How about:

$ for in in *.wav; do sox "$i" -r 44100 "output_$i"; done

Paul.