renaming *.wav.mp3 to *.mp3 only

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Robin Laing wrote:

> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >    Sorry if this has been asked many times but I need
> > your help.  I need to rename some music files that I
> > created using lame to simply file.mp3 instead of the
> > file.wav.mp3 format that they are in.  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
> > Here's the script #!/bin/sh
> > for i in *.[wW][aA][vV]; do
> >   lame "$i"  "$i".mp3
> > done
> >
> > The resultant mp3 files had the *.wav.mp3 as I do not
> > know how to modify the results.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
> >
>
> Years ago when I was really trying to learn perl I cam across this little
> program in a perl book.  I think it was an O'Reilly's book.

just from memory, won't the "rename" command do this?

rday