Comments on: m4a (acc) to mp3 http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/2006/10/19/m4a-acc-to-mp3/ Tech stuff Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: admin http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/2006/10/19/m4a-acc-to-mp3/#comment-32 admin Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:18:01 +0000 http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/?p=23#comment-32 Thanks I was searching for that functionality that makes it neater. Although my sources tell me that using the backticks and sed should make it more portable, as in, works in all implimentations of bourne shell. Thanks I was searching for that functionality that makes it neater. Although my sources tell me that using the backticks and sed should make it more portable, as in, works in all implimentations of bourne shell.

]]> By: Neil Greenwood http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/2006/10/19/m4a-acc-to-mp3/#comment-31 Neil Greenwood Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:05:24 +0000 http://www.michaelwood.me.uk/wordpress/?p=23#comment-31 The line newfile=`echo $m4afile | sed -e 's/.m4a//g'` can be replaced by newfile=${m4afile//.m4a/} See http://www.raphink.info/string-edition-in-bash-replacements for more info. The line
newfile=`echo $m4afile | sed -e ‘s/.m4a//g’`
can be replaced by
newfile=${m4afile//.m4a/}

See http://www.raphink.info/string-edition-in-bash-replacements for more info.

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