Script to automatically update all channels local db's with newly added plex items / xml edits.

bash-scripts/updatechannels.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# file: updatechannels.sh
+
+#----
+# Simple script to updates each channels local db with new Plex lib items / xml.
+#----
+
+#---- 
+# To Use:
+# If you added new content to your Plex Library, just make this file executable and run ./updatechannels.sh
+#----
+
+# Make sure that each channel dir ends with a "_" + an incrementing number as seen above.
+
+#----BEGIN EDITABLE VARS----
+
+SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE_PLUS_ARGS='PseudoChannel.py -u -xml'
+
+OUTPUT_PREV_CHANNEL_PATH=.
+
+CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL="_"
+
+PYTHON_TO_USE="$(which python)"
+
+# If using 'virtualenv' with python, specify the local virtualenv dir.
+VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR="env"
+
+#----END EDITABLE VARS-------
+
+# If virtualenv specified & exists, using that version of python instead.
+if [ -d "$VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR" ]; then
+
+	PYTHON_TO_USE="$VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR/bin/python"
+
+fi
+
+# If the file exists b
+
+# Scan the dir to see how many channels there are, store them in an arr.
+CHANNEL_DIR_ARR=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*'"$CHANNEL_DIR_INCREMENT_SYMBOL"'[[:digit:]]' -printf "%P\n") )
+
+# If this script see's there are multiple channels, 
+# then loop through each channel and run the updates
+if [ "${#CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then
+
+	# If virtualenv specified & exists, using that version of python instead.
+	if [ -d ./"$channel"/"$VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR" ]; then
+
+		PYTHON_TO_USE=./"$channel"/"$VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR/bin/python"
+
+	fi
+
+	echo "+++++ There are ${#CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]} channels detected."
+
+	for channel in "${CHANNEL_DIR_ARR[@]}"
+	do
+		
+		echo "+++++ Trying to update: ""$PYTHON_TO_USE" ./"$channel"/$SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE_PLUS_ARGS
+		# If the running.pid file doesn't exists, create it, start PseudoChannel.py and add the PID to it.
+		"$PYTHON_TO_USE" ./"$channel"/$SCRIPT_TO_EXECUTE_PLUS_ARGS
+
+		sleep 1
+
+	done
+	
+fi
+
+exit 0