[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3092: Ability to set the directory for each recording

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/16/2007 06:32 PM, Johan Venter wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> As a matter of fact, I use a little script that calls mythrename.pl 
>> multiple times--each time creating a new directory of links using 
>> different formats (which means they're sorted differently)--giving me 
>> several "views" of my recordings.
>>
>> The script is attached and is relatively self-explanatory.
>>     
> Great script, I've never really played with mythrename.pl but making 
> links like this is excellent.
>
> I added the following line to the script to remove any symlinks whose 
> targets had been deleted/expired and cronned it :)
>
>    find -L ${VIEWS_PATH} -lname '*' -exec rm {} \;
>
> Took me a couple minutes to work out how to do it (I can never remember 
> find options), so thought I would share.

The mythrename.pl script will already delete all links below the link 
directory and then creates new links for all shows, so no need to delete 
them first.

Mike