Re: [Pan-users] Automating NZB downloads

[Ron Johnson]

On 11/08/2011 04:13 PM, Graham Lawrence wrote:
> > > > Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:15:54 -0600
> > > > Excerpted From: Ron Johnson<address@hidden>
>
> > That sounds like a weird use of arrays.
> Its a great convenience.  If you have a list of items and you are
> interested only in one or two of them, using an array gives you
> instant identification of them, like so:-
>
> IFS=$'\x0A'      # elements separated by line breaks only

Clever.

> nzb=($(ls /home/g/dnlds/*.nzb))
> rm ${nzb[0]}     # ditch previous download
> pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb "${nzb[1]}"      # make download
> IFS=$'\x20'$'\x09'$'\x0A'$'\x0D'      # reset default

Ok.  Our goals are different so out techniques are different.

> Pretty much if I watch a movie, I download one, which minimizes the
> amount of HD I must devote to movies.

Disks are cheap.  (Well, they were before the Thai flooding.)

>                                        Otherwise they eat up the HD at
> a fantastic rate.  And its virtually all done with bash internals,
> which I think will be more efficient than calling a separate app like
> head (though its no big deal either way).

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