[GTALUG] Bash Problem

[Stephen]

On 2017-01-07 07:25 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
> I am new to Bash scripts.
>
> I am trying to create a script to use avconv to convert mkv files to mp4
> file.
>
> Run one at a time the command runs fine.
>
> When I execute this script I get an error about an unknown parameter. I
> am guessing that the expansion with the filename variables is failing.
>
> Can someone help me correct?
>
> Thank you!
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Usage: convert file to mp4
> shopt -s nullglob
> ext='.mp4'
> for f in *.mkv
> do
>    base=$(basename $f .mkv)
>    nFname=$base".mp4"
>    echo $nFname
>    avconv "-i $f -c:v libx264 -c:a copy $nFname"
> done


Thank you for the replies. Simply removing the quotes did the trick! :)

-- 
Stephen