Im just laying in bed, but try double quotes instead of singles and then paste me the exact error if you get one. 

On Oct 14, 2017, at 10:15 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

I found a few (~120) .mkv files crept into my plex movie drive. Plex on my limited plex server has trouble transcoding these files in real time, so I need to transcode them into mp4s ahead of time. 

I tried this script, but I have an problem with the second find command.

find /media/plex/ -name '*.mkv' | while read line; do

    echo "Processing file '$line'"

    f=`basename "$line" .mkv`

    echo "basename = $f"

    if [ -n "$(find /media/plex/ -name '$f.mp4' )" ]; then

        #ffmpeg -i {} -vcodec copy -acodec copy $f.mp4 > fix2-mkv.txt 2>&1

        #echo {} > files_fixed.txt 2>$1

        echo "**************need to convert $line"

    else

        echo "$f.mp4 already exists"

    fi

done

All of the file names contain special characters, eg '[', and others. 

For example,

/media/plex/Movies/Disney (Classic)/Robin Hood (1973 Movie) [x264-AAC][DVD][C-W].mkv

I get a false negative on this file when I search for the corresponding mp4 file because of the '[' in the file name. 

This works:

find /media/plex -name 'Robin Hood (1973 Movie)*'

/media/plex/Movies/Disney (Classic)/Robin Hood (1973 Movie) [x264-AAC][DVD][C-W].mkv

but this gives a false negative

find /media/plex -name 'Robin Hood (1973 Movie) [x264-AAC]*'

root@orca:/home/mark# 

I searched the find man page for ways to handle the special characters, but no luck on finding a solution. Anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks!

Mark

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