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I'm using the following to convert a video library from x264 to x265. But I can't stop it without doing a Ctrl-C on the bash script whilst it's working. 

find /mnt/local/int001/media/TV/ \ \( -name '*[xXhH]264*.mkv' -o -name '*[xXhH].264*.mkv \) \ ! -name '*[xX]265*' -type f -exec /usr/local/bin/ConvertTo265.sh {} +

But then the find process keeps spitting out results and the script re-triggers. How can I implement this so I can stop it when required. I have several months of conversion ahead and need to be able to stop it for maintenance etc.

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    You are missing a single quote in '*[xXhH].264*.mkv \) Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 0:47
  • What is the problem? Doesn't Ctrl+C stop it? What's missing? Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 18:36
  • As per the answer below, it only stops the bash script. Find continues to pipe more results, which results in the script being re triggered. Commented Dec 1, 2019 at 19:16

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Presumably the Ctrl-C is only killing the active conversion sub process(es). You could try using Ctrl-Z to suspend it, then kill off the suspended process with kill %1.

Alternatively spin up another terminal and kill the find process from there.

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