Re: Using echo in Bash

From: half_pint (esboella_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/03

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    I get the general idea of the problem (I think), I am thinking "get
    the filenames into a text file, edit it with a text , then turn the file
    into a script
    to do rhe renaming for you" 

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regards half_pint
"Martin Jeppesen" <7t1tng0mgq02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.08.29.13.16.37.837734@sneakemail.com...
> > I think I know what you mean, and my answer would be probably not,
> > well easilly anyway.
> > Do you want like a box to fill in on the screen, with a default value in
> > it, which you can edit, and then presumably read into a variable?
>
> Exactly=)
>
> > I think basically you need to be able to read what is on the screen
> > directly, and I am not sure if you can do this with a 'dumb' terminal,
> > as it reads what you type, NOT what is on the screen, I believe.
>
> Doesn't the 'read' command do that?
>
> Isn't it the 'echo' command that have to do be able to echo editable text?
>
> > You would probably need a small C program to do this for you,
> > using 'cursors'???
> >
> > I could probably 'knock one up' if I had the time.
>
> Thanks for you kind offer=) I considered Perl myself, but perhaps even in
Perl this would
> course the same problem?
>
> > Prehaps it will be easier to ' change the problem'.
> > If you describe what you are trying to do and *why* someone may be
> > able to suggest a solution.
>
> Sure=) I have made this little Bash script that converts MusePack (mpc)
music
> files to OGG Vorbis. For testing MusePack and Vorbis are not needed.
>
> Inorder to get correct file names and tags, I have to reenter the
> artist,album, song title and track number myself=(
>
> The artist and album is only set once, as these are the same for all the
> songs. But the song titles are all different. So right now I prompt the
> old file name to the screen(fx. 04 - Led Zeppelin - Stairway to
> Heaven.mpc), and paste only the title using the mouse.
>
> It would be much faster if I could edit the text on screen, and press
> enter, so only the title was left.
>
> The script is called repack, and works by writing:
> ./reapck file1 file2 file3...
> or
> ./repack *
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # This script converts MusePack (mpc) music files to OGG Vorbis at quality
4.
> # Date of creation 26/08-2003.
>
> # Define constants for the entire repack
> echo
> echo -n "Enter artist name: "
> read ARTIST
> echo -n "Enter album name: "
> read ALBUM
>
> # the repack one by one
> for arg in "$@"
> do
> echo -n "Current filename is: $arg"
> echo
> echo -n "Title: "
> read TITLE
> echo -n "Enter track number: "
> read NUMBER
> mpc "$arg" - |oggenc -q
4 --artist="$ARTIST" --album="$ALBUM" --title="$TITLE" --tracknum="$NUMBER" 
-o "$NUMBER - $TITLE.ogg" -
> done
>
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