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kleedrac · 01-08-2019, 02:47 AM

I'm having a similar issue. The server is running fine but I'm trying to make a script to auto-add books in a certain directory. If I invoke the command:

calibredb add --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd"

it returns "-bash: /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/: is a directory"

If I reword it to
calibredb add --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> --recurse "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/"

it says nothing in the terminal but creates a file called --recurse in the /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ folder! What am I doing wrong? The server is invoked with both --enable-local-write and --enable-auth

EDIT: Apparently I didn't read the documentation closely enough and wasn't escaping the <> characters. The command as it worked was:

calibredb add /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password="<f:/home/kleedrac/pwd>"

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01-08-2019, 02:47 AM	#4
kleedrac Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Lenovo Tab A10	I'm having a similar issue. The server is running fine but I'm trying to make a script to auto-add books in a certain directory. If I invoke the command: calibredb add --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd" it returns "-bash: /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/: is a directory" If I reword it to calibredb add --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> --recurse "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/" it says nothing in the terminal but creates a file called --recurse in the /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ folder! What am I doing wrong? The server is invoked with both --enable-local-write and --enable-auth EDIT: Apparently I didn't read the documentation closely enough and wasn't escaping the <> characters. The command as it worked was: calibredb add /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password="<f:/home/kleedrac/pwd>" A smart man learns from his mistakes - a wise man learns from other's Last edited by kleedrac; 01-08-2019 at 03:02 AM.