File name without extension in bash for loop

Question

In a for loop like this one:

for f in `ls *.avi`; do echo $f; ffmpeg -i $f $f.mp3; done

$f will be the complete filename, including the extensi

Answer 1

This should do it:

for i in *.m4a; do
  ffmpeg -i $i ${i%%.*}.mp3
done