BASH find Question

[Snyder, Alexander J]

I did something very similar (BASH/find/ Plex) just the other day! The
solution Aaron gave will fix it:

"{}" instead of '{}'.

May I also suggest matching the output to a regex pattern. That helps me
sort with great precision:

..... -exec bash -c "if [[ "{}" =~ (my)([pattern]{3}) ]]; then doThis; fi;"
\;

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks,
Alex.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+

On Oct 15, 2017 04:08, "Aaron Jones" <retro64xyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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 at 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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