I’ve been looking into converting a bunch of OGG files to MP3 files for a friend using BASH.  As the files are organised in a directory structure, I need to traverse the directory structure, and run lame against each file to convert it.  Having a look around for BASH scripts to traverse a directory structure, I found someone with a similar problem who solved it using the “find” command.  I’ve taken their solution and added filtering by file extension.  This solution traverses a directory structure, filters the results using a regular expression, and then executes a command against each of the filtered results.  In general the command works something like this:

find /home/music -iregex ^.*\\.ogg$ -exec mysweetcommand '{}' \;

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