Adam Chernow: Director, Editor, Web Geek

Linux makes things hard… and easy.

Problem: Need to consolidate the .mp3’s from my current playlist into 1 directory

Solution:

Open .m3u file in your favorite text editor
add \ before all special characters
run ‘[esc] :%g/#EXTINF/d’ on the file in vim to strip out the #EXTINF lines
add a dose of #! /bin/sh to the top of the file for good measure
chmod +x
run

If I had only known it was that simple an hour ago…

Google failed me because I didn’t find the ‘%g/string/d’ command the first time I searched for how to do the replace, but instead found all the info I could find on the ’sed’ command, which apparently requires you to have a computer engineering degree to figure out how to use.

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