automatorbashfinder
As a part of my workflow, I often face this scenario:
Now I want finder to separate the valid files from the heap of original files by either marking them or creating a new folder and copying them recursively.
How can I achieve this with automator?
I'm not sure I understand correctly - if in the third line of Your script You're checking whether ftp service is running You can use following script:
#!/bin/bash
launchctl list | grep ftpd
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
IPADDR=$(ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1' | grep -v 127.0.0.1)
launchctl load "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist"
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to display alert \"FTP Launched and ready for file-transfer\" & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & \"Address: ftp://\" & \"$IPADDR\" & \":21\" & character id 8233 & \"User Name: \" & \"$USER\""
else
launchctl unload -w "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist"
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display alert "FTP session closed"'
fi
Run this a sudo.
Explanation:
launchctl list.grep it differently in order to get rid of additional IP addresses.In addition to specifying the full path to ffmpeg two additional problems needed to be solved:
The path to the output files are also needed.
The pass input option of the shell script action has to be set as arguments.
The final script is then this:
#!/bin/bash
for f in "$@"; do
DIRNAME="$(dirname "$f")"
filename=$(basename "$f")
name="${filename%.*}"
extension="${filename##*.}"
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" -filter_complex 'scale=1920:1080, pad=2134:1200:107:60' "$DIRNAME"/OUTPUT_"$name"."$extension"
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i "$DIRNAME"/OUTPUT_"$name"."$extension" -vf 'scale=1920:1080' "$DIRNAME"/FINAL_"$name"."$extension"
done
Notice how the path was added to ffmpeg and also that $DIRNAME was added to the output files, that was not mentioned by the other question.
Best Answer
Given a text file, filelist.txt, containing the files enumerated, one per line, the following command will move those files (and only those files) found in the current directory and beneath it, to a directory, destination, located in the user's Documents folder:
xargs: accepts the files listed coming from stdin (or in this case, filelist.txt), replacing their path into the % variable in the following find command
find: locates those files if they exist, then executes the following command on each file
mv: moves the found file, represented by {}, to the destination
Incorporating this line into an Automator workflow is left to the reader.