changing file types with sox

[bignester]

i want to change all of the wav files to cdrs with sox and make a script that does it for me

i already have all of the files in a directory i just dont know how to script

can anybody point me to a good scripting tutorial

[Dolda2000]

One idea is this:

for $file in *.wav; do sox -t .wav $file -t .cdr ${test%.wav}; done

Then you can rm *.wav if you deem the operation successful. It should work, though I haven't tried it.
Everything is documented in bash(1), so I don't really know if you need a tutorial. Might I suggest this:

man -t bash >bashman.ps
gv bashman.ps &

If you don't have gv installed, use ggv instead. If you want to print it then (and you have enough physical papers for that), do this:

man -t bash | lpr

[bignester]

it says the $file is not a proper identifer

why would it do that

[Dolda2000]

Sorry, that was just a typo. There shouldn't be a dollar sign at the first "file", like this:

for file in *.wav; do sox -t .wav $file -t .cdr ${file%.wav}.cdr; done

There were some more typos as well, I must have been tired.
That for command loops through all files matching *.wav, putting the filename in the variable file (which is accessed with $file). ${file%.wav}.cdr removes the .wav extension from $file, and add .cdr to it.
Like I said, it's all documented in bash(1).