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Mac OS script for watching a random movie
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# Mac OS | |
# Fun script to view random movie from given directory recursively | |
# Maybe you want to watch a random Friends episode :) | |
# Script depends on VLC media player(https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.ru.html) | |
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then | |
echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/movies/directory" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
directory=$1 | |
movies=() | |
# you can find and manage own file extensions with following one liner | |
# find . -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "${0##*.}"' {} \; | sort | uniq | |
while IFS= read -r -d $'\0'; do | |
movies+=("$REPLY") | |
done < <(find "$directory" -type f \ | |
-iname '*.mkv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.webm' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.flv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.vob' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.ogg' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.ogv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.drc' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*gifv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.mng' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.avi' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.mov' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.qt' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.wmv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.yuv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.rm' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.rmvb' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.asf' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.amv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.mp4' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.m4v' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.mp' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.m?v' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.svi' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.3gp' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.flv' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.mpg' -print0 -o \ | |
-iname '*.f4v' -print0 \ | |
) | |
array_length=${#movies[@]} | |
if [ $array_length -eq 0 ]; then | |
exit 0 | |
fi | |
random_index=$(($RANDOM % array_length)) | |
open -a vlc "${movies[$random_index]}" |
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