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can't rm -rf afterward
| Posted by ti_nhatrang, 07-20-2012, 05:36 AM |
| Hi all,
I have this command which runs great, but I am trying to rm the file after the conversion but it's not helping me:
Thank you for helping in advance.
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| Posted by krizag, 07-20-2012, 06:43 AM |
| What does the command return?
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| Posted by ti_nhatrang, 07-20-2012, 01:21 PM |
| nothing, it just skip it and go to the next 'do'
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| Posted by wartungsfenster, 07-20-2012, 02:10 PM |
| that cannot work, anything after the pipe is no longer part of the xargs call.
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| Posted by kar1181, 07-21-2012, 06:56 AM |
| As said above the pipe symbol terminates the xargs command and passes its output to the next command, in this case your rm -r.
To achieve what you're trying to do, just pass off a full command line to sh to run it in a subshell, i.e. use this:
find . -type f -name '*.flac' -print0 | xargs -0i sh -c 'ffmpeg -i {} -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k "{}.mp3" && rm -rf {}'
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| Posted by wartungsfenster, 07-21-2012, 07:45 AM |
| You might love http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/find/#xargs
(I so rarely had a use case for any of that... I think xargs 3-4 times in 10 years, and + once(!)
Normally you just shouldnt have any unstructured folder/file structures to need to use and tune find)
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