Bash folders

Collection of Bash scripts to execute functionalities in folders, such as optimizing videos, unzipping files, converting images, etc.

• Video optimizer
• Decompress files

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Video optimizer

Folder that watches when new videos are added and optimizes them.

Requirements

• inotify-tools
• ffmpeg

Example in Debian.

sudo apt install inotify-tools ffmpeg

Install

curl -o bash-folders-video-optimizer https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tanrax/bash-folders/main/bash-folders-video-optimizer.sh && chmod +x bash-folders-video-optimizer && sudo mv bash-folders-video-optimizer /usr/local/bin && echo "🎉 Successfully installed! 🎉"

Test

bash-folders-video-optimizer --help

Run

bash-folders-video-optimizer --folder [folder to watch]

Example.

mkdir optimizer
bash-folders-video-optimizer --folder optimizer

And leave a video that you want to optimize in the folder optimizer.

Start at operating system startup

Option 1: Service

Create a file in /etc/systemd/system/bash-folders-video-optimizer.service with the following content.

[Unit]
Description=Folder that watches when new videos are added and optimizes them.

[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
User=[user]
ExecStart=bash-folders-video-optimizer --folder [folder to watch]

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Edit it to your needs.

Recharge services.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

And activate it.

sudo systemctl enable bash-folders-video-optimizer
sudo systemctl start bash-folders-video-optimizer

Option 2: Cron

Open.

crontab -e

Add to document.

@reboot bash-folders-video-optimizer --folder [folder to watch] >/dev/null 2>&1 &

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Development

Check syntax

shellcheck [script]