Thread: Feeling very pleased with myself

For ages now, my flat-mate has nagged me that there isn't a way of displaying "recent additions" on my media centre

I've got films and TV episodes split into numerous genre and category folders, and it works quite well
but it's a large folder structure, and new stuff is easy to miss

anyway, I came up with these:

lastmod_files - last modified files (films) across all folders

Spoiler for blah:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Check for proper number of command line args.

EXPECTED_ARGS=2
E_BADARGS=65

if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]
then
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` /path/to/dir #num"
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi

REC_DIR="# New Additions"

FILES=`find -P "$1" -type f -printf "%TY%Tm%Td\t%p\n" | sort -r | head -$2 | cut -f2`

cd "$1"
find "$1/$REC_DIR" -type l -exec rm {} \;

export IFS=$'\n'

for file in $FILES
do
    REL_PATH=`echo "$file" | sed -e "s|$1/||g"`
    FNAME=`basename "$file"`
    MOD_DATE=`ls "$file" -l | cut -d' ' -f6`
    ln -s "../$REL_PATH" "./$REC_DIR/($MOD_DATE) $FNAME"
done
export IFS=$' \t\n'

lastmod_dirs - last modified directories (Episode seasons) across all folders

Spoiler for blah:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Check for proper number of command line args.

EXPECTED_ARGS=2
E_BADARGS=65

if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]
then
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` /path/to/dir #num"
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi

REC_DIR="# New Additions"

FILES=`find -P "$1" -type f -printf "%TY%Tm%Td\t%h\n" | sort -r | cut -f2 | /home/lounge/scripts/recent/rmdups | head -$2`

cd "$1"
find "$1/$REC_DIR" -type l -exec rm {} \;

export IFS=$'\n'

for file in $FILES
do
    REL_PATH=`echo "$file" | sed -e "s|$1/||g"`
    FNAME=`echo "$REL_PATH" | sed -e "s|^[^/]*/||" | sed -e "s|/| > |"`
    FIRST_FILE=`ls "$file" -t1 | head -1`
    MOD_DATE=`ls "$file/$FIRST_FILE" -l | cut -d' ' -f6`

    ln -s "../$REL_PATH" "./$REC_DIR/($MOD_DATE) $FNAME"
done
export IFS=$' \t\n'

and the results....

http://www.snoopy.force9.co.uk/lastmod_files.png
&
http://www.snoopy.force9.co.uk/lastmod_dirs.png

Yep,
feeling quite pleased

You're running your media centre on Ubuntu? That's hardcore. FYI, both the Microsoft and Apple media centres have a newest content function built in

How long does that take to run? Seems that if you have a lot of stuff then it would take a pretty long time.

screenshots are actually from my desktop machine, not the media box
media box is also running ubuntu, with MythTV

Originally Posted by ninja9578

How long does that take to run? Seems that if you have a lot of stuff then it would take a pretty long time.

near instant, actually
I've got it in cron running daily