[GTALUG] Bash Problem

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sun Jan 8 10:21:52 EST 2017


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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