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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Terminal vs. Applescript Post 302356118 by tgaleza on Thursday 24th of September 2009 02:16:28 PM
Old 09-24-2009
Java Terminal vs. Applescript
I am running Mac OS X (10.5). I run the following script successfully in terminal in order to split an mp3 file into 3 smaller mp3 files...

split -b 8667k -a1 Monday.mp3 Levin-Hour_; ls Lev* | sed "s/.*/mv '&' '&.mp3'/g" | zsh

However, when I run a similar script within the Applescript editor using the 'do shell script' command, the files split yet none of the 3 newly created files include the 'mp3' extension (they are in mp3 format however). Although I realize that I can simply rename the files within Applescript, the purist in me wants to know how to fix this. Here's what my Applescript command looks like...

do shell script "split -b 8667k -a1 Monday.mp3 Levin-Hour_; ls Lev* | sed " & "s/.*/mv '&' '&.mp3'/g" & "| zsh"

By the way, I know that I can easily split the file via a GUI editor. However, I am trying to run an automated script that downloads several files in a scheduled fashion. Therefore, I want to correct this via scripting if at all possible.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. This may be more of an Applescript problem, but I thought I would at least throw it out there - thanks!!
 

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mp3cut

MP3CUT(1)							   User Command 							 MP3CUT(1)

NAME

       mp3cut - cut and assemble MP3 files

SYNOPSIS

       mp3cut  [ -o outputfile ] [ -T title ] [ -A artist ] [ -N album-name ] [ -t [hh:]mm:ss[+ms]-[hh:]mm:ss[+ms] ] mp3file [[ -t ...	] mp3file1
       ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The mp3cut utility cuts and assembles MP3 files according to the time specifications given on the command line. The mp3 output  is  written
       to  the	outputfile.  If  no outputfile is given on the command-line, the name for the outputfile is created from the name of the first mp3
       file by adding output.mp3 at the end. The -t flag specifies which part of the mp3 file following it will be extracted.

OPTIONS

       -o outputfile
	      Specify where the output is to be written.

       -T title
	      Specify the title ID3 tag for the output file.

       -A artist
	      Specify the artist ID3 tag for the output file.

       -N album-name
	      Specify the album name ID3 tag for the output file.

       -t [hh:]mm:ss[+ms]-[hh:]mm:ss[+ms]
	      Specify which part of the following mp3file will be included in the output file.

		    hh	= hours
		    mm	= minutes
		    ss	= seconds
		    ms	= milliseconds

	      If the starting time is omitted, 00:00:00+00 is used as starting time. If the ending time is omitted, the end of	the  MP3  file	is
	      used as ending time.

EXAMPLES

       mp3cut -o output.mp3 -t 23:42+500-01:23:42+750 input.mp3
	      Cut  the	segment  from  23  minutes,  42  seconds  and 500 milliseconds to 1 hour, 23 minutes, 42 seconds and 750 milliseconds from
	      input.mp3 and write the output to output.mp3.

       mp3cut -t 00:01-00:02 input1.mp3 -t -15:23 input2.mp3 -t 9:87+500- input3.mp3
	      Append the segments from input1.mp3, input2.mp3 and input3.mp3 and write the output to input1.output.mp3.

AUTHORS

       Manuel Odendahl <manuel@bl0rg.net>, Florian Wesch <dividuum@bl0rg.net>

								   February 2005							 MP3CUT(1)
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