Hi, I just started to use bashpodder, and i think is a great (and little)
script. I have a problem with original script and I changed it. The
problem is The podcast that i hear arent dailys. I have a cron task on
every day to find new podcasts and i get many days a new dir with a date
and without any file inside of it.

I moved the creation of new dir when i'm sure that there are files to
fill it. It have a little performance penalty (check the exists of dir
on every file you download), but it's not important if you compare it with
the time of download of the file (ten o more minutes).

My second modification: i changed position of logs files and conf file.
I think is better have a hide directory with theirs.

Ok, this is my version of full bashpodder.
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#!/bin/bash
# By Linc 10/1/2004
# Find the latest script at
# http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder
# Last revision 12/14/2004 - Many Contributers!
# If you use this and have made improvements or have comments
# drop me an email at linc dot fessenden at gmail dot com
# I'd appreciate it!

# Make script crontab friendly:
cd $(dirname $0)

# datadir is the directory you want podcasts saved to:
datadir=~/Supratech/$(date +%Y%m%d)

# Delete any temp file:
rm -f ~/.bashpodder/temp.log

# Read the bp.conf file and wget any url not already in the podcast.log
# file:
while read podcast
       do
       file=$(wget -q $podcast -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n
's/.*url="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p')
       for url in $file
               do
               echo $url >> ~/.bashpodder/temp.log
               if ! grep "$url" ~/.bashpodder/podcast.log > /dev/null
                       then
                       # Check for and create datadir if necessary:
                       if test ! -d $datadir
                               then
                               mkdir $datadir
                       fi
                       wget -q -P  $datadir "$url"
               fi
               done
       done < ~/.bashpodder/bp.conf

# Move dynamically created log file to permanent log file:
cat ~/.bashpodder/podcast.log >> ~/.bashpodder/temp.log
sort ~/.bashpodder/temp.log | uniq > ~/.bashpodder/podcast.log
rm ~/.bashpodder/temp.log

# Create an m3u playlist:
ls $datadir | grep -v m3u > $datadir/podcast.m3u
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