Convert and copy new books to library, headless linux calibre

[mrdrew]

I'm looking for some help with a linux bash script (I think is a good solution). I'm horrible at writing this stuff, and could use help, if anyone is inclined.

I've got a folder of various types of books, mobi, epub. From time to time, I'll dump another book into this folder. I'd like to set a cron.hourly to run a bash script that:

If there’s a book in toadd-folder (
1. If it's a .mobi file
a. break
Else
a. convert to mobi
b. delete non mobi files
2. Import book to Calibre
3. Move original to alternate storage folder
)


Looks like this

xvfb-run calibredb add

interesting setup from digitalocean

[kovidgoyal]

While I am not going to write the script for you, I'll just note that there are a couple of bits of obsolete advice in that digital ocean writeup. You dont need xvfb-run any more and you dont need to install imagemagick.

[mrdrew]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

While I am not going to write the script for you, I'll just note that there are a couple of bits of obsolete advice in that digital ocean writeup. You dont need xvfb-run any more and you dont need to install imagemagick.

Thank you very much! The internet is a little slow at updating their stuff for sure - ubuntu 16.04. I've posted a comment over there with a link to this thread.

have a great day

[theducks]

Originally Posted by mrdrew

Thank you very much! The internet is a little slow at updating their stuff for sure - ubuntu 16.04. I've posted a comment over there with a link to this thread.

have a great day

Mr drew

The issue with the Internet, is not everyone wants to/can run the Latest versions of software. (IT controls any system updates, Limited $...)

Documentation needs to reflect applicable OS, release level when there is a update that obsoletes or modifies sections

eg.
(V 1.48) last supported version on XP
(V x.yy) last version that runs on processors without SSE2

[mrdrew]

got a bash script sorted out to simplify this

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.epub; do
# do some stuff here with "$f"
filename=$(basename "$f")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"

echo "working on $f..."
ebook-convert "$f" "$filename.mobi"
# remember to quote it or spaces may misbehave
done