I have a little programming experience but am completely new to shell scripting.

I have several hundred mp3s which I want to split using mp3splt with the command

mp3splt -A XXX.txt XXX.mp3

I have run this command by hand in the past but now have a project where doing it by hand would be impractical due to the number of files. In my imagination it should be easy to write a script that searches a folder for all the mp3s that have a txt file of the same name and runs the above command on them.

My question just is this: Is there any obvious reason this would not work? If you (meaning: a person with experience in shell scripting) don´t see any such reason, I´d work my way through this tutorial to work out the rest. If, on the other hand, you say it is impossible, I can just stop and do it by hand.

Thanks in advance!

In case you are interested in my use case: I play irish music, which is based on short melodies played by heart. I want to learn these melodies using anki with audio files. For that, I need to have audio files with just one specific tune each.

  • shrugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Nice one. Doing for loops with a list of files is a common mistake. I hate the exec syntax of find though. Why the fuck do we need ; at the end

    • DollyDuller@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      This helps distinguish commands that find runs from its own arguments. Imagine how find would figure out which commands it’s executing, and what their arguments are. The easiest way to do this is to use the standard end-of-command character. That way, you don’t need to create a special way to separate things. You can even put one find command inside another.