How to pass "sort string" to xbmc?

[mr.sparkle]

Hi, I just started learning about post-processing scripts and trying to make a simple xbmc onscreen notification when a download has been processed. Is it possible to pass the sort string (i.e. clean movie title) to the ExecBuiltIn Notification command?

I read http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/user-scripts and http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?t=6203 but the closest I could find was a folder variable. Unfortunately, all my movies wind up in the same folder.

Running 0.5.6 in Lucid,
Thanks in advance

[sander]

Wat is a sort string? Can you give an example?

And none of the first three parameters is useful for you?
1 The final directory of the job (full path)
2 The original name of the NZB file
3 Clean version of the job name (no path info and ".nzb" removed)

Have you tried them? Or can you give an example what the above looks like for a typical download?

[mr.sparkle]

Wat is a sort string? Can you give an example?

Something like "%title %y %ext"found here: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-sorting

The final directory of the job

No, because all the movies go to the same folder.

The original name of the NZB file

Maybe, but it could be a convoluted name that's a little tricky to scrub, no? I usually just add the nzb from nzbmatrix. I guess I could rename the nzbs properly before adding them.

Clean version of the job name

Not sure, although I think that might be where to get it from, although that's a little beyond me.

[sander]

Isn't $3 useful? Or is that nonsense when you use RSS-feeds?

Anyway: time to test it: this is the postprocess-script I wrote on my system, and it gives useful info about $1 and $2 and $3:

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#!/bin/sh
echo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 >> /home/sander/sab-logger.txt

So, if you run that, you can what $3 offers you ...

[Mar2zz]

Here is a script that notifies xbmc and updates library:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18712538/Sabnzb ... library.sh

[mr.sparkle]

Thanks, guys, $3 (clean version of the job name) is still not as clean as what SABnzbd leaves my file name as, namely "%title %y %ext" from the sort string. If the sort string can't be passed to a script, is it possible to repeat (in a script) what SABnzbd does to clean the file name down to "%title %y %ext"?

[Mar2zz]

Depends on when sab renames. Does it before or after postprocessing? (i don't use that option, so I don'tknow). If it does after postprocessing you could use dirname $1 or ls $1 or something to obtain info about folders or files.