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Old 09-02-2016, 09:12 AM   #31
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My suggestion of nullglob would mean prior to that I also would get errors from stat for the 4 extensions.
 
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Old 09-02-2016, 09:16 AM   #32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Entropy1024 View Post
That's great information. I'm slowly figuring it all out.

When I attempt to run the script I get:

/home/tim/bin/download_clean_sort.sh: line 30: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
/home/tim/bin/download_clean_sort.sh: line 64: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I thought that by adding a second ) just before the ; would fix it but I then get more errors. Where should that second ) go?

Cheers
Tim
It would be easier to use:
Code:
$(stat --printf "%s\n" filename)
Much simpler than the "$(ls -l <some FILENAME> | awk '{print $5}')" which is a bit awkward and slow
 
Old 09-02-2016, 07:47 PM   #33
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OK - I have now seen the error, which occurs if no file with a particular extension is present.
As grail suggested, adding the nullglob setting suppresses the error here.
Code:
#!/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 nullglob
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
shopt -u nullglob

Last edited by allend; 09-02-2016 at 11:27 PM.
 
Old 09-03-2016, 03:26 AM   #34
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allend View Post
OK - I have now seen the error, which occurs if no file with a particular extension is present.
As grail suggested, adding the nullglob setting suppresses the error here.
Code:
#!/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 nullglob
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
shopt -u nullglob
Many thanks for all the great help. I'm learning a lot from these examples.
Tim
 
Old 09-03-2016, 03:31 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by allend View Post
OK - I have now seen the error, which occurs if no file with a particular extension is present.
As grail suggested, adding the nullglob setting suppresses the error here.
Code:
#!/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 nullglob
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
shopt -u nullglob
Many thanks for all the great help. I'm learning a lot from these examples.
Tim
 
  


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