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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with detect with regex and move script Post 302989687 by Simplify on Tuesday 17th of January 2017 07:54:32 AM
Old 01-17-2017
Hi Robin,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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Originally Posted by rbatte1
Dear Simplify/Darren,

I have a few to questions pose in response first:-
  • Is this homework/assignment? There are specific forums for these.
  • No this is not home or assignment - just something I would like to do to continue to automate my processes.
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  • What have you tried so far?
I have been reading some forums and tinkering around with some bash scripts using sed and awk.
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  • What output/errors do you get?
    • I haven't been successful in getting the right pattern matching working for the tvshows I have been able to bash script the move of the movies without too much problem, however I was hoping to minimise the use of sed or awk and keep it as simple as possible hence the reason I thought I would post here and seek some input from the pros as I am very novice in the Linux scripting environments.
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  • What OS and version are you using?
    • Lubuntu 16.10
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  • What logical process have you considered? (to help steer us to follow what you are trying to achieve)
    • scan the download directory, check for video file as there could be apps or docs in the download directory if a video file is found, then check the naming of the video file and then move based on the match of tvshow or movie.
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    Most importantly, What have you tried so far?

    There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.


    We're all here to learn and getting the relevant information will help us all.
    Robin
    I have only tried to achieve this using bash, however, part of the process is I am calling a python script from another programmer to run some conversion on the video files as well, so I thought it may be more efficient to use python for this process also.

    I am using the manual.py script from GitHub - mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator: Automatically convert video files to a standardized mp4 format with proper metadata tagging to create a beautiful and uniform media library
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