Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.28 19:01, Dale wrote: > [snip.....] >> 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 >
I knew I'd heard of that before. I didn't realize it was outdated tho. Trust me, my scripting is awful. I have a script that I use to backup my /home directory. I wanted to add a section that will make sure the external drive is mounted first and stop if it isn't. I googled, found some nifty examples. Sort of makes sense, sort of. Still no clue how to make it work for me tho. lol So sad. Some things I get and can pick up fast. Some things I can't quite grasp no matter what I try. Scripting seems to fall into that last category. It's pathetic. Dale :-) :-)
