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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Learning to Script in Linux Post 303018020 by Rhysers on Saturday 26th of May 2018 10:33:15 PM
Old 05-26-2018
Got it!

Hello again,


Its been a minute since i've been here, but i finally figured it out. Here is the end result:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

#build an array of the results of find
array=()
while IFS=  read -r -d $'\0'; do
    array+=("$REPLY")
done < <(find '/mnt/raid/media' -iname "*.ts" -print0)

#go through the results
arrayLength=${#array[@]}
for (( i=0; i<$arrayLength; i++ ))
do
        filepath=${array[$i]}
        echo "${filepath}" >> '/home/rhys/converted_files.log'
    LOCATION=${filepath%/*}  # Delete everything in $filepath from last slash to end and store in LOCATION
    FILENAME=${filepath##*/} # Delete everything in $filepath from front to last slash and store in FILENAME
    SRC=${LOCATION}
    DEST=${FILENAME%.*}      # Delete everything in $FILENAME from last dot to end and store in DEST
        #convert movie
        HandBrakeCLI -i "$SRC/$FILENAME" -o "$SRC/${DEST}.mp4" --preset="Roku 720p30 Surround" -s "1,2,3,4,5,6"
        ExitCode=$?
        if [ $ExitCode -ne 0 ]
        then
                echo "failed. removing faulty file" >> 'home/rhys/converted_files.log'
                rm "$filepath" #it didn't work. Delete the faulty file
        fi

        if [ -s "$SRC/${DEST}.${DEST_EXT}" ]    # File exists and has size greater than zero
        then
        rm "$filepath" #it worked and the old ts file can be removed
    fi
    sleep 2 #cuz even CPUs deserve a short break
done

something about the while loop wasn't working. I had it echo the filepath before it began and that showed me that although running the find by itself as suggested showed all the files, the second time through the loop it returned an empty string instead of the next item in the list.
That's when I decided to put it in an array and loop through it. Thanks for the help, especially that first bit with the comments showing what each line did. Helped me crack the code so to speak Smilie


I'm sure you guys will see me around.
 

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