UPDATED 8-10-10: This script has been superceeded by its newer version at http://www.surlyjake.com/blog/2010/08/10/script-to-run-handbrake-recursively-through-a-folder-tree/. The new version features all of the previous features, but can also traverse recursively through a folder structure.

{% codeblock handbrake.sh %}

!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then TRANSCODEDIR="." else …

I have been struggling with this for quite a while, and ran into a lot of issues with all of the different versions on our network. There are people with 100 line .vbs scripts to do this, and I think this is much simpler:

@echo off
REM
REM
REM    Detects …

Why? Because i'm lazy. I'll update this to see if it works

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#!/bin/sh
#your current site will be backed up to your home folder with the date in the name
#change this …