I'm not against learning perl, I am just trying to learn enough of bash to see what I can or can not do. For a few year's i've worked with xbmc, have it installed on a soft-modded original xbox. And it is a lot of work to get movies/tv shows in the correct format to work with xbmc or any other format so that is easy to work with. Like subtitles, fanart, posters, banners, etc. With the advent of html5/css3 I thought why not use the browser as my interface to my video collection, there are a lot of jquery plugins that can do crazy effects etc. So with the browser selected as my interface, now I have to find a way to make local video files playable. I want to take the power of bash to work with all kinds of data, and use it to manage and organize all my technological toys/tools, my cellphone, my ipod touch, my xbox, my video collection, etc. my technology motto of the year is "Be organized, be planned, be automated" Now that I don't have to worry about antivirus, antispyware, etc, I can focus my energies on cool projects... What kind of stuff do you guys do for fun? On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > I've always thought bash was cool and powerful since my first real taste > of it but now having learned perl I find that the speed with which you can > put together some scripts in bash to do some elaborate tasks is quite > impressive given the plethora of additional tools available to integrate > into a bash script. > > You can re-invent "cat" in perl but why bother? Perl takes a number of > lines vs just 3 characters of c-a-t. I still string together a number of > grep's, uniq, sort, awk, etc together to parse some outputs. It would take > me a long time in perl (comparatively) to refine the output in a similar > manner. > > > Back to the OP again, that sounds like a very interesting project, though > with the surging growth of OTV/VoD all served from "the cloud" (aka the > interwebs) I personally have been less inclined to do much along these > lines. I would, however, not mind to reap the benefits of your efforts in > the spirit of open source, which also would be more interesting to me to > provide feedback, bugs discovered, patches developed, etc. My DVD > collection stares at everyone, it would be nice to rip them all into a > system that would easily enable me access to their content without a > cumbersome wrapper system (*cough* mythtv) > > Also, it is not boring to hear of someones efforts like this. People who > get annoyed or bored by further dialogue on this subject can figure out how > to operate their mail clients respective delete / filter functionality. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> > Sender: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:56:59 > To: TCLUG Mailing List<tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Hi there... > > On Sun, 20 May 2012, Craig Rosenblum wrote: > > > I am already working on a web-based movie player page, as an alternative > > to using software, based on a bash script that generates html based > > pages that allow me to scroll through local movies and then play them. > > Not done yet, but getting closer. > > By "local" do you mean on local drives? Are they DVD ISOs or MPEG files > or what? > > > > I love working on bash scripts. And I was always a big fan of automating > > things on windows, so I look forward to learn how to do automation in > > linux. > > I guess it's kinda like this: > > dos batch --> bash script > scheduler --> crontab > > I'm sure the suggestion to learn python or perl was a good one, but I do a > lot in bash and I think it is very worth knowing. It helps a lot to have > bash skills when you need to do something quickly from the command line. > You can do a lot with bash. > > Welcome to the club. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120521/f8660db0/attachment.html>