#!/bin/bash for i in *.mp3; do newFile=`echo $i | sed 's/ - /@/g'` author=`echo $newFile | cut -d@ -f1 | sed 's/ *$//'` name=`echo $newFile | cut -d@ -f2 | sed -e 's/ *$//' -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/.mp3//'` echo "I have >>$author<< and >>$name<<" id3 -a "$author" -t "$name" "$i" done