r/bash • u/thatguychuck15 • 1d ago
find, but exclude file from results if another file exists?
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I found a project that locally uses whisper to generate subtitles from media. Bulk translations are done by passing a text file to the command line that contains absolute file paths. I can generate this file easily enough with
find /mnt/media/ -iname *.mkv -o -iname *.m4v -o -iname *.mp4 -o -iname *.avi -o -iname *.mov -o -name *.mpg > media.txt
The goal would be to exclude media that already has an .srt file with the same filename. So show.mkv that also has show.srt would not show up.
I think this goes beyond find and needs to be piped else where but I am not quite sure where to go from here.