Question

I’m trying to remove the file that I was working on previously but it’s not letting me, please help. Here is the command I run:

find . -type f -name '*.flac' -print0 |
  xargs -0i ffmpeg -i {} -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k "{}.mp3" |
  rm -rf {}

Answer 1

If you have GNU Parallel installed you can do:

find . -type f -name '*.flac' | parallel ffmpeg -i {} -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k {.}.mp3 '&&' rm {}

It will run one ffmpeg process per CPU core.

To learn more watch the intro videos: http://pi.dk/1