Synecdoche

This sript extracts the soundtrack from any video format and converts it to mp3. Put all videos in a single folder and run this script on them. This works on all kinds of video. This is specially useful on those bunch of youtube videos. It works like flv to mp3, mp4 to mp3, avi to mp3 etc. ================================== #!/bin/bash # convert-video-to-mp3 v2.0 by JOnes. # This sript extracts the soundtrack from any video format and converts it to mp3. # Put all videos in a single folder and run this script on them. This works on all kinds of video. This is specially useful on those bunch of youtube videos. echo -e "\nThis sript extracts the soundtrack from any video format and converts it to mp3. Put all videos in a single folder and run this script on them. This works on all kinds of video. This is specially useful on those bunch of youtube videos.\n\n" if [ ! `which mplayer` ] ; then echo -e "Install mplayer \nsudo apt-get install mplayer" exit 0 fi if [ ! `wh

Internal Field Separator (IFS): This internal variable in bash shell turns out to be an indispensable tool in these days of spaces and other weird characters in filenames. Anyone who has tried to script in bash which involved accessing lot of filenames have definitely come across the problem of spaces in filenames. The problem is this. It becomes impossible to split a directory listing "ls" into filenames using just the for $i in `ls` command. And the reason is simple. The directory listing separates filenames by spaces but the filenames themselves might have spaces. So the for command cannot figure out where the filename ends and where it begins. That is where this neat trick comes in. We have to tell bash to ignore all separation symbols other than newline while splitting up the directory listing into filenames. This means each line would be a new filename. And we have to make sure that each line has a new filename. This is easily achieved by the "ls -1" command