Shell script/bat question

[Xoligy]

Hi all sorry if i dont make much sense or anything but im a PC lol.

Anyway what i wanted to know is, is it possible to make a bat/shell script to unzip/rar a file then move ALL files with the file types avi, mkv etc etc to another directory on a network extenstion (router with readyshare)

So thats find files with rar/zip etc

Unzip them then remove zip/rar files

Find avi/mkv etc

Move to readyshare

Its just to make things easier for my dad, brought a mac wants media streaming then im asked to come and figire it all out -.-

Anny help, advise etc is appreciated.

[CPressland]

Surely Double Click the ZIP files and drag and drop into Share is easier that creating a script and having him go into Terminal to execute it?! Still, it can be done, but I'm not on my Mac right now, so I'll have a solution later.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Create an automator script?

As Vegetunks said, I would be more helpful but I'm at work and not on my Macbook at the moment.

[Xoligy]

I was thinking it would be like a bat file you double click and it just worked, if terminal is needed then forget it lol

I have had a look at automator but i dont really know how to combine a search and when i have tried results have gone from x found to 0 found then i dont know how to uncompress the files anyhow :/ something i have been thinking was maybe doing everything seperate "search rar > expand", "search zip > expand", search rar delete rar search zip etc etc. just thought with todays technology it be simple "kind: rar,zip", "delete: rar,zip" i'll keep looking into it in my spare time.

Thanks for the responses anyhow.

[Dick Montage]

OK... Let me just think outloud here...

1) Extracting zip files is easy, so let's ignore that.

2) You only want to copy certain files from wherever they are in a folder structure to 1 folder elsewhere? I'm no expert in RoboCopy but I assume it can do that?

I'd personally write a small C# exe for the task on a Windows PC...

[Xoligy]

Hi Nik, everything i need to do is in a Mac enviroment not Windows, if it was Windows i would of had it done i recon. Anyway going to run over to the mac and have a play see how far i get till i hit that brick wall lol

[-Alex-]

+1 for Automator! Use it, it's great!

[witboy]

jop, automator indeed

[Dick Montage]

Sorry, didn't see the forum! My bad!

In which case Automator is 100% the way to look!

[Xoligy]

No problem Nik its probably because i added "bat" to the tagline/title

Anyway, ive just done more research and believe i have it doing what i initially wanted! Im just running a few tests to make sure, i think my main issues were i was trying to make it too complecated and do too much too fast, anyway ive now split the search patters and extracting and like i said im testing.

1. search for extension rar

2. extract rar files > delete rar files

3. search for extension zip

4. extract zipfiles > delete

Automator is pretty simple when you figure things out, for extraction im using "The Unarchiver"

Thanks for the responses anyway people appreciated!

Pah no edit button for (Solved) well i hope it is anyhow ^^