You would think that awk would be available but unfortunately they are using an old version of busybox 1.1.3 that they recompile themself to be as small as possible since it is flash into an embeded device (media player) that only has 128 MB flash nand. Trust me it is not available by issuing busybox by itself it displays all the command that are available and awk is not one of them or trust me I would definitely use it; it would make my life a lot easier.

Input to the script $SORTEDTMP is not an XML files but a list of all the movies on my movie directory as explained in previous post.

The output is XML and can be deducted from the code. For example for the input of the previous post and $MOVIEPATH = "/USB/movies/science-fiction/" the output created by the code would be:

<Movie>
<title>alien</title>
<poster>/USB/movies/science-fiction/alien/folder.jpg</poster>
<info>/USB/movies/science-fiction/alien/about.jpg</info>
<file>/USB/movies/science-fiction/alien/alien.avi</file>
</Movie>
<Movie>
<title>IronMan</title>
<poster>/USB/movies/science-fiction/IronMan/folder.jpg</poster>
<info>/USB/movies/science-fiction/IronMan/about.jpg</info>
<file>/USB/movies/science-fiction/IronMan/IronMan.avi</file>
</Movie>
etc.......

For all the movies in the /USB/movies/science-fiction/directory.


I left out the xml header that is created before the loop and the footer which is created after the loop; but in case anyone is interested here it is:

Code:

 
echo -e '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Jukebox>' > $RSS
 
echo -e "</Jukebox>" >> $RSS

As you can see all the <movie> elements are appended to the file $RSS = jukebox.xml on every loop iteration; I am not sure how much time consuming this is ...... anyway if all the data was sent to some buffer/array/variable and then create the file $RSS=jukebox.xml after the loop is done be more efficient versus a write file operation on each loop iteration ???? Would that even make it faster ???? If so what would be the best method to do that.

Any ideas on this specific subject ....

Thank you.