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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find & remove characters in filenames Post 302583326 by barrydocks on Tuesday 20th of December 2011 06:49:17 AM
Old 12-20-2011
wow, this is getting very technical for a mere noob like me!

One other quick question; I have a few mp3 files with a dot half way through the file name (ie track1 feat. artistx.mp3), up until now I have manually removed them as I came across it, how do I modify this command to remove them on mass?

Thanks!

Last edited by barrydocks; 12-20-2011 at 07:49 AM.. Reason: typo
 

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qmp3check(1)							 quelcom man pages						      qmp3check(1)

NAME
qmp3check - check and clean mp3 streams SYNOPSIS
qmp3check [option]... file... DESCRIPTION
qmp3check reads mp3 streams looking for invalid frames or, simply, garbage. it can be used as a mp3 file checker but also as a mp3 file cleaner because it is able to strip garbage bits from the streams. OPTIONS
-D, --delete delete invalid frames and garbage. use with care -h, --help show a brief help and exit -q, --quiet no output messages -T, --delete-tag delete tag (if exists). option --delete must be set. -v, --verbose show more detailed info -V, --version show version and exit BUGS
tests have been done only with mpeg version 1 layer iii streams, though it may (or not) work with other versions/layers. AUTHOR
dmanye@etse.urv.es http://www.etse.urv.es/~dmanye/quelcom/quelcom.html SEE ALSO
qmp3info(1), qmp3join(1), qmp3cut(1), qmp3report(1) qwavinfo(1), qwavjoin(1), qwavcut(1), qwavsilence(1), qwavfade(1), qwavheaderdump(1) quelcom 0.4.0 february 2001 qmp3check(1)
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