Or nFname="${base}.mp4" Using brackets you can mix variables and text and create something like this: newName="${oldname}-bkp-${filedate}.${extension}.old" Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2017-01-08 13:21 GMT-02:00 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org>:
On the topic of quotes, see my in-line comments...
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 05:57:40AM -0500, Stephen via talk wrote:
On 2017-01-07 07:25 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
#!/bin/bash # Usage: convert file to mp4 shopt -s nullglob ext='.mp4' for f in *.mkv do base=$(basename $f .mkv)
Should be base=$(basename "$f" .mkv)
nFname=$base".mp4"
nFname="$base".mp4
echo $nFname avconv "-i $f -c:v libx264 -c:a copy $nFname"
avconv -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -c:a copy "$nFname"
done
Thank you for the replies. Simply removing the quotes did the trick! :)
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