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Hi there,
Sorry my first post is a cry for help rather than a helpful tip, I started using Hazel only a few days ago and I'm not quite there yet! However, my question could interest people in a quest of tweaking further their video files management.

Basically I'm trying to do 2 things:
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[*]join movie files that are split in xxx-cd[digit].extension - for avi & mkv files (99% of my video files)
[*]convert movies currently in 2 files (1 for the video + 1 for the subtitles) into just 1 mkv file - for srt & sub files
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Being 1) not knowledgeable when it comes to programming 2) but still geek enough to spend quite a few hours on google to search for a solution, I stumbled upon a lot of tutorials about sorting TV shows folders and files. At first, I thought I could adapt the one from http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/organising-media-hazel-pt-2-986/ to solve problem 1 (joining files).

Here is what I started with...



Until I realised AJoiner coulnd't be controlled through applescript because it doesn't have an applescript dictionary. So I was just opening it up but still have to do the rest manually. Half-baked.

For problem 2 (merging video+subtitles into one mkv file), I did discover a way to convert sub to srt (http://www.robelix.com/sub2srt/) and then use mkvmerge with the srts.

Fortunately I found a similar question from a Linux user looking to batch clean his video storage folder with shell scripts: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/making-a-batch-shell-script-to-convert-merge-and-append-join-movies-to-mkv-773699/

I have been trying to adapt his bits of code to a Hazel routine but either the 2 files I'm trying to join as a test vanish (deleted) without being joined or I get a shell script error. I have never used shell script before and I can't seem to find my way around it, although I can see that those bits of code (hereafter) are the way to go.

To join video files:

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#!/bin/bash
for FIRST in ./*.cd1.mkv ; do
   NAME=$(basename "$FIRST" .cd1.mkv)
   REST=("./$NAME".cd[^1].mkv)
   mkvmerge -o "$NAME.mkv" "$FIRST" "${REST[@]/#/+}"
   rm "$FIRST"
   rm "${REST[@]/#}"
done

To merge video & subtitle files:

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#!/bin/bash
AVI_DIR="avi"
SRT_DIR="srt"
MKV_DIR="mkv"
for AVI in "$AVI_DIR"/*.avi ; do
   NAME=$(basename "$AVI" .avi)
   if [[ -r "$SRT_DIR/$NAME.srt" ]] ; then
      echo "Subbing $NAME (SRT)"
      mkvmerge -o "$MKV_DIR/$NAME.mkv" "$AVI" "$SRT_DIR/$NAME.srt"
      rm "$AVI"
      rm "$SRT_DIR/$NAME.srt"
   else
      echo "No subtitles found for $NAME"
   fi
done

So if anyone could point me in the right direction or is willing to help out with those code snippets, I'd be very grateful

Thanks

You scripts seem to assume what directory it's in, which is a very bad thing to do in general. Hazel passes in the file or folder as $1 so whatever you do, base it off of that. You can use the basename or dirname commands as needed.