help with sed

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Sy Ali wrote:

> In Konqueror, I can right-click a wav file and I see an action to encode it.
>
> But I notice that it won't work with some filenames.  I tracked down
> the commandline being used, and I see that sed is removing .wav from
> the end of the input thusly:
>
> lame %f `echo %f | sed 's/\\\\\\\\.wav$$//'`.mp3
>
> But this won't work on complex filenames, such as:
>
> Lacuna Coil [2005, in a Reverie (reissue) #03] - Honeymoon Suite.wav
>
> What can I do to correct this commandline and keep using sed to remove
> ..wav from the end of the filename?

lame %f `echo %f | sed 's/.wav$//'`.mp3

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