How soon is now? And is that before or after?
The script here is only a slightly cleaned up version of the previous one, but also with a major addition. A timer.
It may be just that I’m new to Linux, but getting the syntax correct was very unintuitive. It took a lot of trial-and-error to get the spaces in the right place, and it reminds me a lot of programming in the 1980’s where you just get a “syntax error” message and nothing else.
This timer function uses the classic technique of storing the system time at the start of the script and then again once the script has finished, subtracting the former from the latter and the difference is the time taken.
This function only returns an the number of seconds as an integer, and a result of “1350575350” might as well be in grains of sand. So, I have then reformatted the output to a more human-readable minutes and seconds by dividing the number of seconds elapsed by 60 to get the minutes and deriving the modulus (what’s left over) for the number of seconds. I could also do a similar thing with the value 3600 if I wanted to format it in hours, minutes and seconds.
Strangely, when I tried date +%2s (which returns the current system time in seconds) at the command line in OS X it failed, but not on the same machine whilst booted into the Linux partition. Turns out, it was a typo but Linux is happy to ignore this glaring mistake (should be date +%s) whilst OS X is not. Strange when it’s so particular about other syntax.
However, all complaining aside, I have got some actual useful working code up and running much more easily than I had expected.
# !/bin/bash
clear
echo “Hello Monkey Planet”
starttime=$(date +%s)
cd /home/richard/Desktop/RBTest/newtest
rm *.JPG
rm *.jpg
cd /home/richard/Desktop/RBTest/testtemp
rm *.JPG
rm *.jpg
cd /home/richard/Desktop/RBTest/newtest
#gphoto2 –get-all-files
x=1; for i in $(find $(pwd) -name \*.JPG | xargs ls -t -r); do counter=$(printf %04d $x); ln “$i” /home/richard/Desktop/RBTest/testtemp/img_”$counter”.jpg; x=$(($x+1)); done
cd /home/richard/Desktop/RBTest/testtemp
ffmpeg -r 25 -i img_%04d.jpg -s 640×480 -qscale 1 -vcodec mjpeg movie.mov
rm *.jpg
stoptime=$(date +%s)
fulltime=$(expr $stoptime – $starttime)
fulltimesecs=$(expr $fulltime % 60)
fulltimemins=$(expr $fulltime / 60)
echo “$fulltimemins minutes $fulltimesecs seconds”
I suppose it would be good to structure this programming at some point, such as the timer function, so that I could call it from any script. There probably is a function in Linux already.
More soon…
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