FileBot

Hi forum,

Trying to run filebot in a bash script and pass through a file glob i.e. Show.Name.S01*/*.mkv

File globs run fine if I run the command myself however running in a script I can only ever get it to match first option.

Since file globs are apparently passed into scripts as an array, the obvious solution is to loop over the array - however the only way I can see this working is spawning a new instance of filebot for every episode which increases processing time significantly, with multiple lookups etc. I'd rather it batch process.

Has anyone found a way around this? Can a file list be read-in from a temporary file? What other easy solutions may there be to get around this issue?

Thanks,
Joe

What is the command you're running? What does the console output say? What have you tried so far to narrow down the issue?


Is this a bash question, or a filebot question? ➔ https://askubuntu.com/a/674347


e.g. it works as far as filebot is concerned, everything is passed in a single filebot call:

You are correct its more a bash question then a filebot question, was more hoping someone had come to this issue.

Your post, however, put me in the right direction of how globs are handled. I was lead to believe they are passed straight into the script as an intact array so if its argv[1] is itself an array of all the results, but as you demonstrated the glob expands itself before passing through so each matching file path is actually a new argument, so now I access them through $@, since this custom script of mine only takes file globs as arguments.