calibredb add - exclude formats?

[perler]

is there a way to exclude certain formats from imported by

calibredb add..

?

and is there a way to convert a book while importing via a command line switch?

[eschwartz]

On linux/OSX, you'd use something like:

for i in *.FMT1 *.FMT2 *.FMT3; do
	calibredb add $i
done

Or:

for i in *.FMT1 *.FMT2 *.FMT3; do
	ebook-convert $i /tmp/$(basename $i).END_FMT
	calibredb add /tmp/$(basename $i).END_FMT
done

[perler]

this way I would need to write my own loop to search thru subdirectories, I hoped, that I can use a switch together with

calibredb add ---r $path

[eschwartz]

We can use "find" as well, which should recurse automatically.

find . -type f \( -name "*.FMT1" -or -name "*.FMT2" \) -exec calibredb add {} \;

And awesomely enough, gfind (renamed) can do this on Windows too, with https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow

(On Windows, the characters ;() do not get escaped.)

[perler]

followed by \;

thanks

[eschwartz]

Correct.

Fixed.