I recently converted all of my FLAC files to a lower sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and bit depth of 24 bits (because iPhone/iPod don't support anything above that) using XLD on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion).
Although I told XLD to overwrote all previous files, XLD appended a (1)
at the end of very file like from
some_song.m4a
to
some_song(1).m4a
So now I want to remove that (1)
from all the FLAC files I converted.
I know I could have probably used some program or even an AppleScript to rename the files, but I wanted to learn using the old school way of command line.
I know that find . -name *\(1\).m4a
will grab all the converted FLAC file.
Next I know I have to do something with -exec
and mv
to rename all the found files. But what I can't figure out is how to keep the original filename and only remove the (1)
.
Maybe I need to do some group regex capturing to store the part of the filename that I don't want to modify? Or maybe it's not possible to do everything in one line and I should create a shell script (which I'm not that comfortable doing, but I'm willing to give it a try).
Any tips or suggestions are welcomed! Thanks!