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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH: how to launch a program with parameters Post 302175413 by cfajohnson on Thursday 13th of March 2008 11:07:30 PM
Old 03-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCanFury
I have a bunch of MKV movies with embedded subtitles. I'd like to extract the subtitles into their own SRT file. so I've got this basic script written:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

MOVIE=$1
echo "Original Movie: $MOVIE"
SRTFILE=${MOVIE/%mkv/srt}
echo "srt File: $SRTFILE"

TRACK=`mkvinfo "$MOVIE" | grep subtitle -B3 | grep Track\ number\:\ | sed -e 's$
#echo "Track is $TRACK"

if [[ "$TRACK" -gt "0" ]]
then
        echo "Track is: $TRACK"
        mkvextract tracks $MOVIE ${TRACK}:$SRTFILE
else
        echo "No subtitle track!"
fi

which gives me
Code:
$ ./subtitleextract.sh Ying\ Xiong\ \(Hero\).mkv 
Original Movie: Ying Xiong (Hero).mkv
srt File: Ying Xiong (Hero).srt
Track is: 3
Error: Missing track ID in argument 'Xiong'.

it should be running
mkvextract tracks Ying\ Xiong\ \(Hero\).mkv 3:Ying\ Xiong\ \(Hero\).srt
but obviously isn't.

Quote your variables:
Code:
mkvextract tracks "$MOVIE" "${TRACK}:$SRTFILE"

 

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NAME
checkbashisms - check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts SYNOPSIS
checkbashisms script ... checkbashisms --help|--version DESCRIPTION
checkbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence of bashisms. It takes the names of the shell scripts on the command line, and outputs warnings if possible bashisms are detected. Note that the definition of a bashism in this context roughly equates to "a shell feature that is not required to be supported by POSIX"; this means that some issues flagged may be permitted under optional sections of POSIX, such as XSI or User Portability. In cases where POSIX and Debian Policy disagree, checkbashisms by default allows extensions permitted by Policy but may also provide options for stricter checking. OPTIONS
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lintian(1). AUTHOR
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