A Thousand Ways.

bingeldac has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

There seems to be thousands of ways to do what I am trying to do and I was just curious to see what you guys/gals thought. I have a huge list of files. For each of those I want to convert them to 4 different types of codecs using a command line program. However I need a naming scheme as such:

bleh.wav <------ Original File
bleh.a.wav <------ First Conversion
bleh.b.wav <------ Second Conversion

And so on and so on. What is the most efficient way to do this? Keeping in mind that each conversion will be made with a command line call.
Bing

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Re: A Thousand Ways. by cwest (Friar) on Oct 24, 2000 at 22:29 UTC
Use separate directories for each conversion, naming the directories the CODEC name. -- Casey I am a superhero.	[reply]
Re: A Thousand Ways. by quidity (Pilgrim) on Oct 24, 2000 at 22:36 UTC
I use the following to uncompress shorten files (go etree!) into wave files and mp3 files at the same time. I'm sure you could modify this to suit your needs. $shorten_path = '/windows/command/shortn32'; $mp3_encoder = '/mp3/bladeenc/bladeenc'; opendir DIR, '.'; while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) { next unless $file =~ /\.shn$/i; ($file_out = $file) =~ s/\.shn$/.wav/i; `$shorten_path -x $file $file_out`; `$mp3_encoder -quit -quiet $file_out`; } [download]	[reply] [d/l]