[mythtv-users] make a copy of .nuv as .mpg
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Sat Oct 16 17:27:55 UTC 2004
> I tried
> cp /storage/TV/recording/*.nuv /storage/Videos/*.mpg
> and I am getting this error message:
> cp: `/storage/Videos/*.mpg': specified destination directory does not exist
That's because when copying multiple files, the destination must be a
directory.. the * is expanded by the shell, not by cp.. anyway, you
want something like:
for file in /storage/TV/recording/*.nuv; do
NEW=`basename "$file" .nuv"
cp "$file" "/storage/Videos/$NEW.mpg"
done
-Chris
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