Why won’t wget work with cron

I have done something like this before, and what made my life easiest was pbcopy and pbpaste. They allow you to either read the current clipboard or write to it.

So you go to Safari, copy some text, run an automator action. Action is run shell script schell script is just basically just wget `pbcopy`

Let's start with a small example.

Fire up Automator and create a service with a single "Run Shell Script" step.

Set it to take Folders as input from Finder

Pass input as arguments. Shell is /bin/bash

Bash code:

cd "$@"

for file in *.mov *.flk *.mp4
    do
    ls -1 "$file" >> ~/Desktop/test_file_awk.txt
done

What this does it takes the directory you pass in as "$@" and goes into it then runs the command on all the files in that directory.

"$@" is in quotes to protect against spaces, as is "$file"

So, you can replicate this to your setup:

cd "$@"
i=$(for file in {*.flv,*.mov,*.mp4,*.m4v}
    do 
    /usr/local/bin/mediainfo "--Inform=Video;%Duration%" "$file"
done | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}')

((i/=1000, sec=i%60, i/=60, min=i%60, hrs=i/60))
timestamp=$(printf "%dh%02dm%02ds" $hrs $min $sec)
echo -e "Total duration of video files in this folder:\n\n$timestamp" > _total_duration.txt

Personally, I would change the output to something like:

> ~/Desktop/"$@"_total_duration.txt

So that the data ends up on your desktop in a file named for the folder, but I have a lot of media directories and I don't want txt files in them.