How to extract string from filename solved
Tony Baechler
tony at baechler.net
Fri Jul 31 09:12:38 UTC 2015
You're right! I totally missed that and I should know better. I use that
syntax without the "ls" all the time and I didn't even think about it.
Maybe that's why it takes forever to run. Fortunately I can put "&" at the
end to run it in the background. Of course I have thousands of files to
process.
On 7/30/2015 6:11 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On July 30, 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
>> #Since there are no spaces in the names, use for loop
>>
>> for i in $(ls *mp3);do
>
> For the record, this can be simplified to just
>
> for i in *mp3 ; do
>
> -tim
>
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