#!/bin/bash compare() { for i in * do if [ `du "$i" | cut -f1` -lt `du ../"$i" | cut -f1` ] then echo $i mv "$i" ../"$i" fi done } mkdir out ls *.flac | parallel ffmpeg -i {} -c:v copy -c:a flac -compression_level 12 $@ out/{} cd out compare cd .. cp *.flac out cd out ls | parallel flac -f -8 -V {} compare cd .. rm -r out