Bash script to generate absolute m3u files

m3u-absolutify

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Usage: m3u-absolutify playlists_dir output_dir /absolute/path/to/music
# Description: generates absolute path versions of all m3u files in a directory
# Author: Ben Lawson

SOURCE_DIR=$1
DEST_DIR=$2
ABSOLUTE_MUSIC_DIR=$3

# create DEST_DIR if it doesn't already exist
mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR"

for file in "$SOURCE_DIR"/*.m3u; do
    echo "Processing: $file"
    name=${file##*/}
    # delete comments & prefix music dir path
    sed -e "/^#/d" -e "s#^#$ABSOLUTE_MUSIC_DIR#" "$file" > "$DEST_DIR/$name"
done