BASH snippet – clean up stereo pairs and sort by folder L/R boom/lav

Assuming stardard protools L/R pairs.
Assuming existance of “boom” and “lav” paths.

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#!/bin/bash

moveit(){

local channel=`echo ${filename} | cut -d . -f2`

if [ "$channel" == "L" ]
then
local newName="${filename/.L.wav/.wav}"
cp ${filename} boom/$newName
else
local newName="${filename/.R.wav/.wav}"
cp ${filename} lav/$newName
fi
}

########################### MAIN ########################
echo "-----------"
for filename in *.wav; do
moveit $filename
done