Little bash script to display a M3U-ready file list. `m3u > list.m3u` to generate the list, ready to be ingested.

m3u.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SERVER="sftp://WHATEVER.local"

# https://askubuntu.com/questions/343727/filenames-with-spaces-breaking-for-loop-find-command#comment439889_343727
IFS=$'\n'

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37309551/how-to-urlencode-data-into-a-url-with-bash-or-curl
# converted to Python3 : urllib.quote => urllib.parse.quote
urlencode() {
  python3 -c 'import urllib.parse, sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]))' \
    "$1" "$urlencode_safe"
}

process() {
  if [[ $(file --mime-type $1 | egrep "video") ]]; then
    encoded=$(urlencode_safe='/' urlencode "$path")
    echo "$SERVER$encoded"
  fi
}

if [[ -z "$1" || "$1" == "." ]]; then
  for path in $(find ~+ -type f | sort -t '\0' -n); do process "$path"; done
else
  for path in $(realpath $(find "$1" -type f | sort -t '\0' -n)); do process "$path"; done
fi