Automatic log manager for Game of Thrones series.

I watch a lot of anime. When I started watching One Piece which had 500+ episodes, it was very hard for me to keep track of how many episodes I have seen already. So I used to keep a log file which always had the next episode's number and I used to manually update it whenever I watch an episode.

That was a good idea but not good enough :P. At least for awesome people like me doing work manually is too mainstream xD.
If you do all the work what is your computer there for???
So I wrote a script which automatically manages the log. And next time when I run the script it will continue from the place I stopped last time \m/. Now I am planning to start Game of Thrones TV series. People tell I'll like it because I am a big fan of Age of Empires and I love wars :D.

So now what I am planning to do is to automate viewing it just like I did for One piece. In the version of Game of Thrones which I have, each episode name has SxxExx in it. For example S02E09 is there in the file name of episode 9 in season 2. So using this I can iterate over series and inside that i can iterate over episodes.

Setup

Download the gist from here or copy it from here:

	#!/bin/bash
	# log is 1:2
	echo -n "how many episodes u wanna see: "
	read count
	while [ $count -ne 0 ]
	do
	log=`cat log`
	expr "$log" : "\(.*\):.*"
	series=`expr "$log" : "\(.*\):.*"`
	episode=`expr "$log" : ".*:\(.*\)"`
	if [ `echo "$series<10"|bc` -ne 0 ]
	then
	series=0$series
	fi
	if [ `echo "$episode<10"|bc` -ne 0 ]
	then
	episode=0$episode
	fi
	file=S"$series"E"$episode"
	file=`find . -name "*$file*"`
	#if file exists then play else go to next series
	if [ "$file" ]
	then
	# vlc is run in full screen. If u r not using vlc change this line
	vlc -f "$file"
	count=`expr $count - 1`
	series=`expr "$log" : "\(.*\):.*"`
	episode=`expr "$log" : ".*:\(.*\)"`
	episode=`expr $episode + 1`
	echo "$series:$episode">log
	echo "none">error.log
	else
	error_log=`cat error.log`
	if [ "$error_log" == "error" ]
	then
	# this will just print a fancy message :P change it if u want
	figlet end of episodes
	exit
	fi
	echo "error">error.log
	series=`expr "$log" : "\(.*\):.*"`
	series=`expr $series + 1`
	echo "$series:1">log
	fi
	done

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Step1

Place the script in the base folder which has folders of all the series. Make it executable:

$ chmod +x script.sh

Step2

create a file called "log" in the same folder. The log file contains current series number and episode number. For example if you are watching third episode of season 1, put 1:3 in that file and save it.

Running:

Just go that folder in terminal and do this:

$ ./script.sh

Now just enter the  number of episodes you want to watch in a stretch and enjoy!