Sure there is! There is never a pattern until we want a pattern, then you'd be surprised at what pops up!

You might find that you need to process in groups (ie: movies that have "(YYYY)" in the name and others that don't).

Try this:

find /media/plex/ -type f -name "*.mkv" -exec bash -c "if [[ \"{}\" =~ (.*)(\[x264\])(.*) ]]; then echo \"{}\"; fi" \;

That should list all of your "x264" encoded movies, including your Disney movies used as an example above.

Feel free to ping me directly, so we can walk this out, step-by-step.

Interested to know the results. Let me know.

-Alex.



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Thanks,
Alex.



On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
Alex,

Thanks for the idea. However, there really aren't any common patterns in the 120 targets that I can match a regex to.

Mark

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Snyder, Alexander J <alex@misteralexander.com> wrote:
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@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@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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