log the command executed

[marciton]

Hi
in a bash script, I have:

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echo $run $new_directory2
$run $new_directory2

the result of the echo is:

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/usr/local/bin/filebot -rename --log all --log-file /var/services/homes/admin/log.txt --format "{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --lang fr --db TheTVDB --q 'Miracle Workers (2019) 2019' -list --filter s==02/volume2/Downloads/_series/Miracle\ Workers\ \(2019\)/season\ 2/*.mkv

if I run this... it's working perfectly but the output of my script is ""-" is not a valid option"

So I guess something is missing somewhere...and I spent my sunday on it ... any clue?
is there a way to "log" the command that is really run to find the error?

[rednoah]

Well, there's clearly a space missing here:

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--filter s==02/volume2/Downloads/_series/Miracle\ Workers\ \(2019\)/season\ 2/*.mkv

Please read Cmdline and Argument Passing for details.

[marciton]

correct ... unfortunately for me, just a copy past error here ... the space is there in the script ...

[rednoah]

If you need our help, please paste command and console output, verbatim, without errors. Otherwise, what's the point? Add additional screenshots if necessary.


Please read this thread from beginning to end, don't just skim it, to get a good feel for how command-line arguments work, and Troubleshooting advice:

Please read Cmdline and Argument Passing for details.

A systematic way to approach the problem would work like this:

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$ filebot -script fn:sysenv
args[0] = -script
args[1] = fn:sysenv

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$ filebot -script fn:sysenv /usr/local/bin/filebot -rename --log all
args[0] = -script
args[1] = fn:sysenv
args[2] = /usr/local/bin/filebot
args[3] = -rename
args[4] = --log
args[5] = all

The sysenv script just mirrors the arguments passed in, so we can see the arguments passed in. You just repeat this, adding one argument after another, until you find the one that doesn't work as expected. The cause will most likely be not escaped/quoted or badly escaped/quoted arguments.


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[marciton]

Thanks so it's could be related to the path..
how to you escape the space in the variable if it's not \

if I do:

MD="/usr/local/bin/filebot -script fn:sysenv -rename /volume2/Downloads/_series/HelloW/season\ 3/*.mkv"
$MD

it's doing:
File does not exist: /volume2/Downloads/_series/HelloW/season\
File does not exist: 3/*.mkv

Normal the path is "/volume2/Downloads/_series/HelloW/season 3/*.mkv"

[rednoah]

Wouldn't it be nice if someone had spent time and effort to write easy-to-understand help pages with lots of examples that specifically explain how the shell handles "" quotes and * shell expansion and the combination thereof?

Please read this thread from beginning to end, don't just skim it, to get a good feel for how command-line arguments work, and Troubleshooting advice:

Please read Cmdline and Argument Passing for details.

NO:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv "/path/to/Season 1/*.mkv"

NO:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv "/path/to/Season\ 1/*.mkv"

YES:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv /path/to/Season\ 3/*.mkv

YES:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv /path/to/Season" "3/*.mkv

YES:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv "/path/to/Season 3"/*.mkv

YES:

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filebot -script fn:sysenv "/path/to/Season 3/"*".mkv"

...

[marciton]

Ok, I tried hard ... without success ... I have reduce to 6 lines of code to debug ... what I'm missing there...?

I tired all previous syntax. it's working out of the script but not inside bash script...

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#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

MD="/usr/local/bin/filebot -script fn:sysenv -rename "/volume2/Downloads/_series/HelloW/season\ 3/*.mkv""
echo $MD
$MD