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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to build a command in a script Post 302254554 by babajuma on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 05:06:58 PM
Old 11-04-2008
How to build a command in a script
Hi All

I am trying to build a script that will take data from a tab separated file and use that to split up a quicktime file. So far the code is as follows

#!/bin/sh
#test parsing of data

#fix excel file output returns
cat $1 | tr "\r" "\n" > $1.fix
printf "\n" >> $1.fix
mv $1.fix $1


FILE=$1

coffee_out=""
coffee_fill="‑splitAt"
coffee_end="‑self‑contained ‑o output.mov $2"
textArray[0]="" # hold text
c=0 # counter
# read whole file in loop

while read c_out line
do
if test $c_out #check there is a value especial for /n for the fix from excel
then
textArray[$c]="$c_out $line" # store line
c=$(expr $c + 1) # increase counter by 1
coffee_out="$coffee_out $coffee_fill $c_out"
fi
done < $FILE


coffee_out="$coffee_out $coffee_end"

echo $coffee_out
splitmovie "$coffee_out"
#The final output should look something like
#splitmovie -splitAt 2 -splitAt 3 -self-contained -o output.mov recode.mov
exit 0

I call the script with two arguments the text file and the quicktime

./split.sh testdata.txt recode.mov

I am a newbie at writing scripts so it could be something really dumb.

I think it is most likely to be me using the wrong way to set the input for splitmovie.

Thanks for your help

Michael
 

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