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