On 2019.01.28 19:01, Dale wrote:
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I'll look into f-spot tho. It may work well for my camera stuff
too. Who knows. What package does that come with? I can't find a
f-spot here. Eix didn't help either.
F-spot isn't currently packaged anywhere. It fell into a period of
lack of maintenance, and had too many build bugs, so most/all distros
dropped it. I didn't want to change, so I started figuring out how to
build it myself. My current version continues to work, but I have not
been able to build a new version in over a year. I can sometimes build
it under other distros with more up-to-date dotnet stuff. If I ever
find something like a flat-pack version, I'll let you know. If you
really want to try, the source is at https://github.com/f-spot/f-spot
Don't underestimate your scripting abilities. It might take learning a
bit, but you've done that before :-) Start with modifying your grep
line so the path to file and grep result are on a single line, you can
append them to a big file (one line per video with full path to video,
the size, and some other (hopefully consistent text). You can import
that into a libreoffice spreadsheet. Even if it's only one column to
start, you can search/replace to change the static text to a comma or
something to separate items, then to "text to columns." Then you can
sort. I think LO can handle ~20K rows, but you could always
move/convert it to LO Base (it's simple database - sort of like
MS-Access). Still just use the spreadsheet interface, but underneath,
it's better able to handle the volume and sorting.
Thanks for the idea.
Dale
:-) :-)
Jack
