A tiny shell script to add a book in your Manning library (on Dropbox) to your calibre library using fzf

add-manning-to-calibre.bash

#!/bin/bash
python <<PYTHON | fzf -m | xargs -d'\n' calibredb add
import os.path
import glob

root = os.path.expanduser('~/Dropbox/Apps/Manning Books')
files = glob.glob(os.path.join(root, '**/*.epub'))
result = sorted(list(map(lambda f: (f, os.path.getctime(f)), files)), key=lambda t: t[1], reverse=True)
candidates = list(map(lambda f: f[0], result))
for c in candidates:
    print(c)
PYTHON