I'm using xattrs to store metadata so this might be a good fit. It also seems there are changes in functionality that make my life a bit easier. I'll try what's best for my use case, thanks.

Thanks for the hints. I don't remember why I used the renall script in my shell script, I wrote it several years ago. All I want is to create symlinks that follow the Plex naming requirements in a temp directory, then in a separate step I convert all the generated symlinks absolute in the final targ...

Just to note, this works:

It's been a while since I ran a scan for my TV shows and since then, there was an OS upgrade as well (Debian 10->11). There's this command I use in one of my scripts but now it refuses to work, and I don't fully understand why. filebot --encoding UTF-8 -rename --db xattr --action symlink --format &q...

:idea: Since passing formats on the command-line can be somewhat cumbersome, you may prefer to pass in your format via a Groovy script file: --format /path/to/my-format.groovy I know, thanks. It's inside a shell script so it's fine there. I remembered why I'm using renall. IIRC it's renaming per di...

plex.tail.derive is incorrect. It used to work, you suggested using it IIRC. Do plex.derive first: {plex.derive{" by $director"}{" [$vf, $vc, $ac]"}} and then pick the tail section from the result of plex.derive : {plex.derive{" by $director"}{" [$vf, $vc, $ac]&qu...

I had to reinstall my server after a crash, and had to reinstall Filebot as well with a new fresh license (old one expired anyway). I wanted to refresh my TV section for Plex, and I'm running into an issue. The `plex.tail.derive` expression below produces an empty string. `plex.derive` does work, bu...

Ah, I see. The built-in help text isn't saying much about how it works and when it's called during a command, etc, I think the find analogy sheds enough light on it.

rednoah wrote: ↑20 Apr 2019, 18:44 Now that I understand your use case, I can give you a solution:

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--action "{ a, b -> a }"

Sorry for not giving enough details. This simple solution works, thanks! I disabled the symlinking workaround.

And sorry for the nag, but is there docs available for -exec somewhere?

:idea: I guess by using --action symlink you can trick FileBot into writing xattr to the original file, via writing xattr to the destination symlink, which links to the original. Yes, that's my current workaround. I need to clean up symlinks made to a temp dir, though, but that's not a problem. Cou...

Yes, it's intentional. This filebot pass is only to fill xattr metadata. I do 2 more passes on my files to accommodate my file hierarchy/structure.

I think I'll use my workaround for now. Your examples outright fail and I don't intend to dig deep into Groovy and the filebot API for such a simple function that otherwise works, except for custom user functions. It does the bulk of the work nicely, eg. finding files in online databases, thanks for...

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand that Groovy code in the action. What is a, b and why do I return File(b) (why not File(a))? Could you please give me the exact Groovy code that makes the xattr update work and I can just copy-paste it? Thanks.

If I use a command similar to the following: filebot --encoding UTF-8 -rename --db TheTVDB --action /bin/true -non-strict --file-filter 'f.isVideo() || f.isSubtitle()' --format '{plex.tail}' -r . Then xattr attributes like `user.net.filebot.metadata` are not written. If I use something like `--actio...

OK, finally it looks like it works perfectly. The final command line is: sudo -u media filebot --encoding UTF-8 -rename --db xattr --action symlink --format "/target_root/ { plex.tail.derive{ def x = model.count{ [it.ext, it.episode, it.lang] == [ext, episode, any{m.lang.ISO2}{null}] } return x...

The good news here is that your --file-filter doesn't do anything, and can be removed from the command, since --db xattr ignores non-xattr tagged files by default (unless -non-strict is set). -non-strict is a leftover from copy-pasting my 1st pass command line. It might not do anything for the rena...

Well, -script fn:renall doesn't seem to process any files for me. My command line is: filebot --encoding UTF-8 -rename --db xattr --action symlink -non-strict --file-filter "f.xattr['net.filebot.metadata'] != null" --format "/targetdir/ { plex.tail.derive{ def x = model.count{ [it.ext...

Sorry, I was mistaken, FG has specials almost each season, not double eps. Season 8 has the problematic double ep. I use a multi-pass approach: 1. scrape into xattrs 2. symlink to temp dir (using --db xattr) 3. convert relative symlinks to absolute (there really should be a switch to make them absol...

I ended up using this formula: { plex.tail.derive{ def x = model.count{ [it.ext, it.episode, it.lang] == [ext, episode, any{m.lang.ISO2}{null}] } return x > 1 ? \" - part\$di\" : null } } It's working nicely for individual directories with a season worth of files, but recursively scanning ...

While testing the model.count solution, I run into an issue when trying to extend the group condition. I need to extend it with the language, because .srt files of different languages for the same episode are detected as duplicates, eg: filename.eng.srt -> seriesname - SXEXX - title - part1.eng.srt ...

No, I escaped it properly... If I use "sudo -iu long_command", it breaks, if I use "sudo -u long_command", it works, the only difference being that -i option for sudo. I don't want to get to the bottom of it, since it works with one way and it isn't a filebot issue. (It must have...

I had that " - part" attached because some weird shell mishap involving sudo. Sorry, that issue does not exist, it was just my own mistake. The duplicate detection where filename.mkv and filename.srt is flagged as a dup still stands, I'll try to handle that using your suggestions above.

rednoah wrote: ↑23 Dec 2018, 20:28 1.
You can do a per-file extension duplicate index like so:

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{
	plex.tail.derive{
		def x = model.count{ [it.ext, it.episode] == [ext, episode] }
		return x > 1 ? " - part$x" : null
	}
}

Thanks, I'll try this tomorrow.

I might not have been accurate. I wanted to say that once a duplicate is detected in a file set, possibly spanning hundreds of series or seasons within them, dc never gets reset, regardless of series or season. That's why I had file names attached the " - part" segment for ALL files, not j...

One possible solution would be to introduce the concept of object hierarchies, based on scraped file metadata. Like how tv/series_name/season_no/file_type/episode forms a 5-level hierarchy. For handling duplicates, it would be sufficient to handle tv+series_name+season_no+file_type as a grouping par...