Here is a short script which goes through a directory structure and operates on mp3 or MP3 files. It uses standard bash methods - and I am posting it here in case you are interested - of course you can achieve the same effect with:
find . -name "*.[mM][pP]3" -print
...but a script is more fun - and substantially slower - giving you time to think about other things - which is often useful. The script prints out the names of the files it encounters - you could have it do something else - like report checksums (cksum) or modification times (ls -lt). The necessary lines for these operations have been commented out in the script. You can use this script as a template to carry out other file based scripted operations. Also note that it won't find files with the following cases in their extensions: mP3 or Mp3 (i.e. mixed case file names).
#!/bin/bash
scandir () {
for item in *
do
if [ -f "$item" ] ; then
curdir=`pwd`
nfile=`expr $nfile + 1`
EXT=`echo "$item" | rev | cut -c 1-3 | rev`
if [ $EXT = "mp3" -o $EXT = "MP3" ]
then
echo "$curdir"/"$item" | cut -c${ld1}-
# ls -lt "$curdir"/"$item"
# cksum "$curdir"/"$item"
fi
elif [ -d "$item" ] ; then
cd "$item"
scandir
ndirs=`expr $ndirs + 1`
cd ..
fi
done
}
startdir=`pwd`
ld1=`echo $startdir | wc -c`
ld1=`expr $ld1 + 1`
echo "Initial directory = $startdir"
ndirs=0
nfile=0
scandir
echo "Total directories searched = $ndirs"
echo "Total files = $nfile"