Script Help Needed..... 1

[banatello]

I have been working on this short script to convert movies from vob files to xvid. I would like it to read the file VOB.lst for the list of movies to convert, then just do it. I keep getting error's and I'm not sure how to correct it. Any help would be great.

Script...
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#!/bin/bash
for INPUT_MOVIE in 'cat VOB.lst' do mencoder $INPUT_MOVIE -o $INPUT_MOVIE.avi -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=224:vol=10 -xvidencopts bitrate=1800;done

The Error's
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./Movie: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
./Movie: line 2: `for INPUT_MOVIE in 'cat VOB.lst' do 'mencoder $INPUT_MOVIE -o $INPUT_MOVIE.avi -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=224:vol=10 -xvidencopts bitrate=1800';done'

 

[Annihilannic]

You need a semi-colon or line feed before the "do".

Also makre sure the quotes around 'cat VOB.lst' are back-quotes, i.e.

`cat VOB.lst`

Or you could use one of these better syntax to avoid ambiguity:

$(cat VOB.lst)
$(< VOB.lst)

Annihilannic.

 

[banatello]

Thank you so much, it worked perfect. Can you recommend a good book or web site to teach scriptting better ?

 

[Annihilannic]

Something like this?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

Annihilannic.

 

[Annihilannic]

Incidentally, if you have other questions like this you should post in the "Unix Scripting" forum. This forum is for awk scripts only.

Annihilannic.