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

[Paul Smith]

On 9/20/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > $ for i in *.wav; do sox "$i" -r 44100 "output_$i"; done
>
> Yow nice one!  Never knew for could do that directly.  When I lack
> knowledge, I know it is time for a dirty hack.
>
> for i in `ls *\ * | tr ' ' \|` ; do j=`echo $i | tr \| ' '` ; sox "$j"
> -r 44100 "output_$j"; done

Almost there! It does not work, for example, in the following case:

12\ Missa\ brevis\ in\ G,\ KV\ 140App,\ C1.\ 12\ Agnus\ Dei.wav

Paul