Bash Script to sort video files to correct folders
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#!/bin/bash
topdir="/home/tim/readynas/Tim/Download/Downloaded/"
cd "$topdir"
longform="/home/tim/readynas/Videos/Longform/"
shortform="/home/tim/readynas/Videos/Shortform/"
(( limit=2*1024*1024*1024 ))
shopt -s globstar
for f in **/*.{avi,m4v,mkv,mp4,wmv}; do
(( $(stat -c %s "$f") > limit )) && mv "$f" "$longform" || mv "$f" "$shortform"
done
shopt -u globstar
When I run this I get the following error:
/home/tim/bin/download_clean_sort.sh: line 46: ((: > limit : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "> limit ")
The code I posted does not have that many lines. What is in that file?
Sorry yes I spliced it into an existing script. The other parts of the script are just finding and removing small files with a certain extension.
the error code is relating to this line (Line 14 in your original code?):
(( $(stat -c %s "$f") > limit )) && mv "$f" "$longform" || mv "$f" "$shortform"
Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms:
$(command)
or
`command`
Bash performs the expansion by executing command and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted.
Maybe place an echo as first line of for loop to see value of $f. Could be no files have been found with the correct ending and then you may also need to set nullglob
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