[Leaplist] teach me please about this code

[Mr. Brunkow]

ok today i was in the need of converting m4a to mp3 formats for a video 
editing project.  after a bit of google.com/linux searching i found a 
very easy way to do this with faad and lame.  One of the pages I found 
had a nice little script that would allow me to convert the entire 
directory when 1 command.  I like that.

Now that I have copied someone else work I want to know what the script 
is telling the computer to do so i understand it a bit better. 

I also found a | line command that does things 1 file at a time and i 
understand that as it is just telling faad to open and lame to convert.  
simple enough.

faad -o - inputfile.m4a | lame - outputfile.mp3

that is easy enough to understand and works great.

but:

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cat convert.sh
#!/bin/sh
#
# m4a to mp3 converting script for a directory
#
        for i in *.m4a
        do
                faad -o - "$i" | lame -h -b 192 - "${i%m4a}mp3"
        done
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is not so easy to understand.  the #!/bin/sh tells me it is just a bash script and i put in the comment about what this script is doing

but what is the rest?

thanks for the education.


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Raymond L. Brunkow
5th Degree Black Belt
Chief Instructor and Owner
Sun State Martial Arts
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