[mythtv-users] make a copy of .nuv as .mpg

[Doug Larrick]

Matt Hannan wrote:
> cp /storage/TV/recording/*.nuv /storage/Videos/*.mpg
> cp: `/storage/Videos/*.mpg': specified destination directory does not exist

The problem is that the shell does not do substitution of the first * 
for the second.  You need to be a little more explicit:

If you are using Bash (or another sh variant):

for file in /storage/TV/recording/*.nuv; do
   export base=`basename $file .nuv`
   cp /storage/TV/recording/${base}.nuv /storage/Videos/${base}.mpg
   unset base
done

I have not tested this, so it may need tweaking.

-Doug
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