Thank you!

I was a bit afraid telling the gawk ">= 160", because I didn't know what it would do for non-number strings (as "variable").

Now the code is much simpler... I've tested it, the awk part works nice.

The renaming part, as you posted, wasn't working for file names with spaces; some quotes made the job . The last pipe was really needed for interpreting as a command.

Code:

find *.mp3.mp3 | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/mv -f "&" "\1"/' | sh

The over-consuming step - LAME - still remains, but I think it can't be helped...

Just for curiosity... I've noticed that the find command works in a random order, not alphabetically, is this correct?

Regards!
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EDIT: Contrary what I said before... for gawk, "variable" >= 160. I changed the "more or equal" again to "exactly equal"... here's the code:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

find . -name "*.mp3" -exec mp3info -r v -p "%r \"%F\"\n" '{}' \; |
gawk '$1 == 160{$1 = "";system("lame -v" $0)}
$1 == 192{$1 = "";system("lame -v" $0)}
$1 == 256{$1 = "";system("lame -v" $0)}
$1 == 320{$1 = "";system("lame -v" $0)}'

find *.mp3.mp3 | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/mv -f "&" "\1"/' | sh
echo UFA, TERMINOU =D