[Pan-users] Automating NZB downloads

[Ron Johnson]

On 11/07/2011 12:22 PM, Graham Lawrence wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:15:54 -0600
> > From: Ron Johnson<address@hidden>
>
> > > pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb "${nzb[1]}" 2>/home/g/pan.debug
> >
> > Slight topic change: are you trying to d/l from a list of nzb files?
>
> Yes and no.  I download nzbs manually into a directory, at odd
> intervals.  In the script I download from just one nzb per run, and
> find it most convenient to ls those .nzbs into an array, rm the first
> one in the array (because its the file I downloaded last time) and
> then download the second element in the array with Pan.

That sounds like a weird use of arrays.

Here's another way to do it...

tmpfile=$(mktemp -u)
NZB=$(head -n1 $NZB_LIST)
pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb "$NZB"
tmpfile=$(mktemp -u)
sed '1d' $NZB_LIST > $tmpfile
mv $tmpfile $NZB_LIST

You could also implement it in a loop:

cd /home/g/Films
tmpfile=$(mktemp -u)
QUEUE=~/my_list_of_NZBs.txt
while [ -s $QUEUE ]; do
    NZB=$(head -n1 $QUEUE)
    pan --no-gui -o . --nzb "$NZB"
    sed '1d' $QUEUE > $tmpfile
    mv $tmpfile $QUEUE
done

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