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Hello. As you can see, I'm a newbie here, and I need some help with the bash scripting... so I figured this would be the best place to ask.

Anyway, I'm trying to make a script that would recursively travel through the directory tree (starting with the current dir, from where it was run), and do something in that dir.
For example, I'd like to run through my entire MP3 music collection, and scan the contents of each directory with mp3gain as if each dir was an album. This means I have to cd into each directory (or something like that), and mp3gain all the .mp3 files in it as an album.

What I've come up with until now is this:



However, this doesn't do much, since it just says it can't open any *.mp3 for reading.
Can someone please help?

Many thanks.

why not just do it like this:


Would do the same thing but give you full paths to your mp3 files
(If a directory or a file contains a space character this could fail)

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

Yes, this fails when directories have spaces in their names. Any ideas how to fix that?

and btw, the reason why I'm not doing this is the -a switch, which scans files as an album. So there's a rather large difference whether I scan a single directory (and I have directories separated by album names) as an album and the whole collection as one album.

There are several ways, but i prefer to muck around with IFS variable.


The IFS variable decides what should be an itteration, the default value of this is a space character

(just don't set it in your shell and forget about it, running it in a script will reset the variable when the script is done)

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

Alright, so I wrote it like this:



but the shell doesn't see the files. Any other suggestions? Is there something else I could use, besides find? Did I do something wrong?
Thanks for your effort.

I was about to write that one But my work got in the way

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson