Scripting sound file editor Audacity?

[Mariane]

Please, does anyone know if audacity can be scripted?
I need to reduce the length of several sound files,
so I would need something like:

for all files in this directory
{
audacity open file
audacity resize to float seconds
audacity save newfile
}

It needs to be a float, I want files 3 seconds long,
2.5 seconds long, etc.

If it cannot be done, if you know another way to do
it I'm opened to all suggestions.

Mariane

[petervk]

Did you look at the man file for audacity?

in a terminal:

man audacity

you can scroll up and down with the arrow keys, and hit q to exit.