On 2004-01-24 23:00:42 +0000 Graham Trott gt@pobox.com wrote:

lav2wav +p foo.avi | mp2enc -V -o foo.mp2

I find the whole area of regular expressions etc confusing; is there a kind

No regular expressions required. This is a search and replace for bash.

expert who could show how to get the above to work for all the files in a folder, such as

for name in *.avi do (How would I do the above with each file?)

lav2wav +p $name | mp2enc -V -o ${name/%avi/mp2}

done

In particular, how do I match just the filename and leave off the extension?

In general, you can use the basename command to do that, but using bash's replace is faster for your problem (no extra processes needed).

; basename test.c .c test