> I copied a > script from the internet but it did not work to encode > mp3 and I modified it so that I could get some output > and it came to *.wav.mp3 try this: for i in `ls *.wav.mp3`; do mv $i `echo $i |sed s/wav\.//`;done Test it first, it may do nasty things.... -- Stuart Mackintosh <sm at opusvl.com> OpusVL