I'm trying to branch out and learn Linux, but my comfort zone is PowerShell. I figure the best way to learn it is to do it so I moved my Plex Media Server to Ubuntu Server.
What I'm trying to do is build a script that searches a directory and all subdirectories for files with the .ts extension, then sends them to handbrakecli to get converted, then deletes the .ts file because its huge. Here's what I've got so far. It's a mix of PowerShell and what I've gleened/stolen from around the internet. I've commented the end of each line that isn't bash, but I'm sure you guys will be able to tell.
Any help or pointers in the right direction would be awesome!
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@Chubler_XL Thanks! I don't have the time right now to dive all the way in but just playing with the find command and digging through its manual...thanks so much. I'll let you know.
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So the find command prints out all of the ts files, and the script works when I run it, but it stops after the first encode. I'm not sure why. Is it something to do with handbrakecli coming back and basically saying "hey i'm done" causing the script to then think that it too is done?
Heres the output for the end:
and here's what I ran. a couple small changes, one to correct a mistake in what I originally posted, and a change to the path to limit the number of tracks it would find.
It should have moved on to the second movie in the folder with the matching .ts extension, but it stopped after the first one.
I'm assuming that the done is the closer of the while loop and that it should hit done and move back to the while (so long as there is another input).
Nothing in that loop ought to make it quit, so maybe it only found one movie for some reason. Run that find statement by itself and see how many files it finds.
Its been a minute since i've been here, but i finally figured it out. Here is the end result:
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
The symptom "while read loop stops after one cycle" is typical for a conmand that reads from stdin, sucking from the input that is for the read command.
Maybe HandBrakeCLI is such a command? Then it helps to redirect its input
or
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