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Old 01-15-2012
Code to remove files when corresponding file doesnt exist isnt working.
I am trying to add some code to the begging of a script so that it will remove all the .transcript files, when their is no coressponding .wav file. But it doesnt work.
This is the code I have added:
PHP Code:
for transcriptfile in `$voicemaildir/*.transcript`; do
wavfile=`echo $transcriptfile | cut -d'.' -f1`.wav

# If the transcript file exists but the wav file does not, remove the transcript.
if [[ -f $transcriptfile && ! -f $wavfile ]]; then
rm -f $transcriptfile
fi
done 
Here is the entire script:

PHP Code:
!/bin/sh

voicemaildir=/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/$1/$2/INBOX/

echo `date` ':' $voicemaildir >> /var/log/voicemail-notify.log

for transcriptfile in `$voicemaildir/*.transcript`; do
wavfile=`echo $transcriptfile | cut -d'.' -f1`.wav

# If the transcript file exists but the wav file does not, remove the transcript.
if [[ -f $transcriptfile && ! -f $wavfile ]]; then
rm -f $transcriptfile
fi
done

for audiofile in $voicemaildir/*.wav; do
   transcriptfile=${audiofile/wav/transcript}
   flacfile=${audiofile%.wav}.flac
   # For each message.wav we check if message.transcript
   # exists
   if [ ! -f $transcriptfile ]; then
      # If not, we create it
      flac --best --sample-rate=8000 "$audiofile" -o "$flacfile"
      speech-recog-cli.pl $flacfile  | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -f 2 -d ":"  > $transcriptfile

      # Now we can do whatever we want with the new transcription
      echo `cat $transcriptfile`
  
 fi
done 
Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-15-2012
You Don't want backquotes in the for command line. Try something like this:

Code:
for transcriptfile in *.transcript
do
   wavfile=${transcriptfile%.*}.wav
   [ -f "$transcriptfile" -a ! -f "$wavfile" ] && rm -f "$transcriptfile"
done

# 3  
Old 01-16-2012
hi.. here is another solution..

Code:
for file in `ls -1 *.transcript`
do
 name=`basename $file ".transcript"`".wav"
 if [ -f ${file} -a ! -f ${name} ]
 then
  rm -f $file
 fi
done

Regards,
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