On Sun, 8 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill <ch...@monochrome.org> wrote:
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
My question is the following:
How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert
them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in place/or rename them
in one step[instead of running two scripts] and deleting the mp3's)
all in one time?
I had a similar (but not identical) problem
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My script is at http://pastebin.com/77NRE6SZ - maybe you can adapt it
to your needs.
Thank you for your suggestion. But I have gotten into a problem I get
errors and too many directories :(, Directories with spaces get
recreated and no ogg files are created :(
If your directory and/or file names have spaces, you will have to quote
the filenames somehow: 'file name' vs. file_name. Maybe you could escape
the spaces? None of my names have spaces, for exactly this reason.
[ Script mostly snipped ]
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#!/bin/sh
# From Steve Parker, only slightly modified:
[ snip ]
traverse()
{
# Traverse a directory
ls "$1" | while read i
do
if [ -d "$1/$i" ]; then
THISDIR=$1/$i
# Calling this as a subshell means that when the called
# function changes directory, it will not affect our
# current working directory
if [ -d $OGGROOT/$THISDIR ]; then
# directory exists, leave it be
echo "$OGGROOT/$THISDIR already exists, not created."
else
mkdir $OGGROOT/$THISDIR
echo "Copying $THISDIR to $OGGROOT/$THISDIR"
fi
traverse "$1/$i" `expr $2 + 1`
else
[ snip ]
fi
done
}
traverse . 0
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I have modified to above script. I don't get how the directory
structure is copied? I don't see a cp -r from_directory/ to
_directory/ then mplayer -ao ....
There is no cp -R. What this is doing is replicating the directory
structure, then copying each file. I missed it too, the first several
times I looked at it. Almost the entire script is the definition of the
traverse() function, which is called in the last line. The function then
calls itself whenever it finds a directory, which makes it recurse. I
thought it was pretty clever; wish I'd thought of it.
[ snip ]
Thanks for helping. I am experimenting and trying not to shoot myself
in the foot.
So was I; that's the main reason why there are all those `echo
"something"` lines - I wanted to see what it would try to do, before
actually turning it loose on my files. That and the fact that doing all
the conversions takes a few hours.
Good luck.
--
Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org
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