ebook converter

ebook2mobi.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if ! type "ebook-convert" > /dev/null; then
    echo "ebook-convert tool not found in your PATH. Please install it (via Calibre) and re-run this script";
    exit
fi

# Pass a path as first argument
function convert {
    for file in "$1"/*
    do
        if [ -d "$file" ]
        then
            convert "$file"
        else
            fileExtension=`echo "$file" | awk -F . '{print $NF}'`

            if [ "$fileExtension" = "epub" ]
            then
                mobiname=`dirname "$file"`/`basename "$file" .epub`.mobi

                if [ ! -f "$mobiname" ]
                then
                    ebook-convert "$file" "$mobiname"
                fi
            fi
        fi
    done

}

cd `dirname $0`
convert .