Re: [SoX-users] Mac OS X beginner seeks support for SoX and scripting: splitting 2-channel .wav´s in two .mp3´s

[Fmiser <fm...@gm...>]

> > On Jan 29 09:00:16, jr...@co... wrote:
> >
> > Scripting is certainly a fantastic skill, and opens many
> > doors! For scripting on OS X, I'd recommend "man bash"
> > rather than "man sh", as the default shell on this platform
> > is bash.

> Jan Stary wrote:
> 
> scripting 101: use plain sh in your scripts, not bash,
> so that your scripts are portable to other UNIX systems,
> some of which do not even have bash; sh is everywhere,
> and is almost the same everywhere.

Scripting 102.  Use the best tool for the job.  Use bash if it's
a better choice than sh.

Portability isn't the only factor to consider.  And even sh only
manages "almost the same", so it isn't 100% portable.  So like
any other choice, there are compromises and costs.  The
challenge is evaluating the situation and deciding which is
right for a _you_ and your situation.

For beginners, I encourage using scripts that match the shell.
So if the shell is bash, that would be bash scripts.

Some links
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2001/article216.shtml
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

--    Philip