Command line OSX

[dewy]

Hi there, firstly thanks for developing such an amazing piece of software. However I'm having trouble running scripts or executing the program from the command line. Could you please provide a brief instruction on how to install filebot for OSX so I can execute it from the terminal/run a script. I want to automate moving from my downloads folder into /Volumes/TV\ Shows/'show name'/'season #'/...

[rednoah]

Well, since an app bundle is not an installer the "filebot" command can't be setup automatically. But there is an install script in FileBot.app/MacOS/bin

Run FileBot.app/MacOS/bin/install.sh to link "filebot" into /bin

[dewy]

Thanks, however the directory in my .app (downloaded from the SF page a few hours ago

Filebot.app/Contents/MacOS/install.sh

Before I was trying to run things as Finebot.app -script =P

[rednoah]

Yep that folder then.

That would be cool but Apple says app bundles must be GUI apps so no console. But I did ready in newer OSXs you can do something like "start Filebot.app -arguments <appl.args>" but that's kinda crap. Better just install the command.

[dewy]

Any possible assistance with this:

192-168-1-6:~ dewy$ filebot -script "~/Downloads/sort.groovy"
FileNotFoundException: ~/Downloads/sort.groovy
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ~/Downloads/sort.groovy
at net.sourceforge.filebot.cli.ArgumentBean.getScriptLocation(Unknown Source)
at net.sourceforge.filebot.cli.ArgumentProcessor.process(Unknown Source)
at net.sourceforge.filebot.Main.main(Unknown Source)
Failure (?_?)

Does a script have to be loaded from the HTTP?

[dewy]

Basically at the moment I have uTorrent set up using RSS to download to "/Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/" automatically.

So I want a script to watch this directory, then rename and file into
"/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/[showname]/..."

So I know I want my output format to be:

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/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}

[rednoah]

Be careful about the ~/ you put it into "" so your shell won't resolve it to /home/me/. Use absolute paths for simplicity.

[rednoah]

Check out the housekeeping.groovy script. Modify to the way you need it and it should work fine. Better have utorrent move completed/seeded downloads into a separate "watched" folder so u don't get conflicts with open file handles / missing files / etc

[dewy]

Thanks.

So far I have the current terminal command working:

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filebot -rename /Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/ --format "/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --db thetvdb

Is there a way I can automate this to watch the directory and not have to open terminal?

[dewy]

Housekeeping script looks good. Any idea how to automate it?

Edit: By Automate it I mean - can we have it run without a terminal window?

[rednoah]

It's just a command. MacOS should have faculties to just launch stuff in background on startup. Or you can have utorrent initiate a rename after a completed download.

[dewy]

Running my command of

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filebot -rename /Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/* --format "/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --db thetvdbp

I now get the following error:
[quote]192-168-1-6:Downloads dewy$ filebot -rename /Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/* --format "/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --db thetvdb
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Exception: Unable to auto-select query: [How to Make It in America, Hustle]
Failure (?_?)
192-168-1-6:Downloads dewy$ [quote]

It works without issue when there is only one file in the folder. But when more than one file exists I have no luck.

[rednoah]

Not because it's one file but because it's multiple shows from the same folder. Cmdline is strict by default, so you won't mess up your files.

Enable fuzzy logic via -non-strict and it'll "most probably" get things right the way u want it.

[dukenbat]

I had some trouble getting the command line Filebot application to run. Thought I would share my solution.
I have never worked with Java before, so be gentle if this is all wrong.
I'm using a stock install of OSX Lion with all updates run.

1. ran install.sh from inside the Filebot.app

$ filebot -script "~/Downloads/sort.groovy"

produces this error
ClassNotFoundException: java.nio.file.FileVisitor
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.nio.file.FileVisitor

Missing a class?

$java -version
java version "1.6.0_29"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11-402-11M3527)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.4-b02-402, mixed mode)

Java 7 needs to be installed, you can find it and instruction here...
http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-bu ... MACOSXPORT

It is easy, just a dmg containing one package, then run the following command:

$ export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home

Works fine now.

Hope this helps someone.

[rednoah]

Java 7 on OSX?? Awesome! Just had people complaining that it's really difficult to install. Thanks for sharing!

Actually scripting should work with Java 6 as well but something got messed up in 2.4, my fault sry

[dewy]

Okay guys, I have created something that works well. Using Automator I created a "Folder Action" on my downloads directory. So the moment my torrent application is finished with the file it dumps it into this directory. The Folder Action watches for any new items in this folder and immediately runs the shell command:

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 filebot -rename /Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/* --format "/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --db thetvdb -non-strict

Hopefully this helps give people an alternative to the confusing scripting method.

Ps. Thanks for the fuzzy logic argument.

[lyonss3]

Okay guys, I have created something that works well. Using Automator I created a "Folder Action" on my downloads directory. So the moment my torrent application is finished with the file it dumps it into this directory. The Folder Action watches for any new items in this folder and immediately runs the shell command:

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 filebot -rename /Volumes/Drobo/Downloads/* --format "/Volumes/Drobo/TV Shows/{n}/Season {s}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}" --db thetvdb -non-strict

that is beautiful, thank you. now do i just save the folder action anywhere and from now on when a file is added it will automatically run the command?

[marceld]

I've installed filebot.sh but keep getting: command not found, what could I be doing wrong?

[thequestion]

did you chmod 755 filebot.sh? it has to be executable

[stewmo]

Hi...

I'm really new (as in never done before) to anything CLI, but I want to install filebot.sh, so I can enter script to automate moving and re-naming files. Whenever I try to post in anything on Terminal (the OS X CLI app) I get the following message:


-bash: filebot: command not found


I want to be able to automate naming files, then moving them into another folder (I have an app called Hazel which handles everything but the re-naming process).

Any help from anyone who knows what's up would be greatly appreciated.

Really like what you're doing here, this software is amazing.

[rednoah]

Replace "filebot" with /Applications/path/to/app/FileBot.app/MacOS/filebot.sh

[stewmo]

And then I just type in the rest of the code I want?

[rednoah]

start with filebot -version first anyway, and then once you confirmed it works try more complex things

[stewmo]

This what I have (I think it is the way I'm supposed to). Does this script make sense?

/Applications/imac/Downloads/Filebot.app/MacOS/filebot.sh -rename "$1" --format {n} S{s}E{e} --db thetvdb

[rednoah]

Just try. Add --action test just in case.