I'm writing a script for batch processing audio files, with xld. I want to find unsplitted albums, split them and convert them in flac, with the proper tags.
find . -name "*.ape" -exec sh -c 'exec xld "$1" -f flac' _ {} \;
this command line is converting the audio to flac but i have to add "-c filename.cue" option with xld to make it split the file.
find . -name "*.ape" -exec sh -c 'exec echo $1 | sed 's/.ape/.cue/'' _ {} ;
this command line shows me the path of .cue files
find . -name "*.ape" -exec sh -c 'exec xld "$1" -f flac -c $1 | sed 's/.ape/.cue/'' _ {} ;
this command line doesn't work, xld says he didn't found de cue file. i think it's just a syntax problem.
thanks for your help
I'm not at a computer to test this like I normally would, but in bash you can substitute the trailing part of a variable like this:
thing="fred.ape"
echo ${thing/%.ape/.cue}
fred.cue
It's called "parameter substitution/expansion" and is explained with examples here.
So, based on that, you'd need to exec bash something like this:
find . -name "*.ape" -exec bash -c "xld "$1" -f flac -c "${1/%.ape/.cue}"' _ {} \;
Personally, I'd do them all in parallel with GNU Parallel like this:
parallel xld {} -f flac -c {.}.cue ::: *.ape
You can install it with homebrew using:
brew install parallel