Category Archives: Scripting

Init Script for Calibre Server

Posted by on February 22, 2012 No comments

I use the very excellent Calibre to make my ebooks accessible to all of my devices anywhere I am. It has a very useful server component that many ebook readers can use to download content. What I was missing was a way to automatically start/stop calibre-server. For that,I put together this rc script for Arch Linux.

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

CONTENT=/mnt/miscellaneous/Books/Literary
PORT=8080

DAEMON=calibre-server
PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON.pid
ARGS="--auto-reload --with-library=$CONTENT --pidfile=$PIDFILE --port=$PORT --daemonize"

case "$1" in
 start)
  stat_busy "Starting $DAEMON"
  [ -z "$PID" ] && $DAEMON $ARGS &>/dev/null
   if [ $? = 0 ]; then
     add_daemon $DAEMON
     stat_done
   else
     stat_fail
     exit 1
   fi
   ;;
 stop)
   stat_busy "Stopping $DAEMON"
   PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
   [ -n "$PID" ] && kill $PID &>/dev/null
   if [ $? = 0 ]; then
     rm_daemon $DAEMON
     stat_done
   else
     stat_fail
     exit 1
   fi
   ;;
 restart)
   $0 stop
   sleep 1
   $0 start
   ;;
 *)
   echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac

SmugMug Upload

Posted by on December 21, 2011 No comments

A while back I created a set of scripts to upload files to SmugMug using php. I have recently rewritten that uploader and made it available on BitBucket. It should work almost exactly the same but it is generally better organized.

Pull info from Pithos for Conky

Posted by on November 22, 2011 No comments

I switched from pianobar to Pithos as pianobar didn’t work as well with conky as I would have liked. The script below lets me get information from Pithos that I can use in pianobar.

#!/usr/bin/php
< ?php

$song=`dbus-send --print-reply --dest=net.kevinmehall.Pithos /net/kevinmehall/Pithos net.kevinmehall.Pithos.GetCurrentSong`;

$matches = array();

switch($argv[1]) {
	case 'album':
		$pattern = '~"album".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
		break;
	case 'title':
		$pattern = '~"title".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
		break;
	case 'artist':
		$pattern = '~"artist".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
		break;
	default:
		exit;
}

preg_match($pattern, $song, $matches);

if($matches) {
	echo $matches[1];
}

SmugMug Uploader Updated

Posted by on September 28, 2009 2 comments

I have updated the SmugMug uploaders I released previously to include the latest version of phpSmug as well as making the uploader only look at image files. In the not too distant future, I hope to add video files.

Download the package

PHP Script for Deleting Orphaned Images

Posted by on December 17, 2008 1 comment

The title for this sucks. But that is because it isn’t easy to concisely describe (in a title fashion) what the script does. Imagine you have a lot of pictures from a photo shoot in both tif and jpg formats. You pick out the jpgs you want to keep and delete the rest. You still have all the tifs and want to delete the ones without a corresponding jpg. This script will do that. It takes three arguments: directory to delete from, directory to base that on, and an optional backup directory to move instead of deleting.

If you want it to handle different extensions, edit the code where it says jpg and tif

#!/usr/bin/php

< ?php

$deleteFromDir = rtrim($argv[1], '/');
$basedOnDir = rtrim($argv[2], '/');
$backupDir = rtrim($argv[3], '/');

if(!empty($backupDir) && !file_exists($backupDir)){
	if(!mkdir($backupDir)){
		dir("Unable to create backup directory. Quitting\n");
	}
}

$dh = opendir($deleteFromDir);
if($dh){
	while(false !== ($file = readdir($dh))){
		if($file[0] != '.' && !empty($file)){
			$info = pathinfo($deleteFromDir . '/' . $file);
			if($info['extension'] == 'tif' && !file_exists($basedOnDir . '/'. $info['filename'] . '.jpg')){
				echo $file . "\n";
				if(!empty($backupDir)){
					rename($deleteFromDir . '/' . $file, $backupDir . '/' . $file);
				}else{
					unlink($deleteFromDir . '/' . $file);
				}
			}
		}
	}
}else{
	echo "Unable to open $dir\n";
}