FFMPEG: Convert multiple files using xargs
I stumbled upon this post (Google cache link) when I was trying to process multiple files via xargs.
ls *.webm | xargs -I % ffmpeg -i % %.m4aThe key part of this one-liner is xargs
-i %. This means that each line of STDIN passed to xargs is put into a variable and can be referenced as%. Hence, the following text which specifiesffmpeg -i x.webm x.m4ato make it convert.