Bash Scripts for RetroArch

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I wrote a couple of bash scripts that could be useful for people using RetroArch and figured I'd post them here.

First off is a script for 'dumb' scanning and playlist generation. That is, it doesn't check against any databases, so it catches things like ROMhacks and translations that don't appear in the No-Intro database that we use for the built-in content scanning:

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=1
echo "Enter the absolute path to your core"
read core
echo "Enter the absolute path to the directory you want to scan"
echo "(exclude trailing slashes)"
read content
echo "Enter the name of the playlist"
read name
for i in $content/*; do
echo "$i" >> $name
echo "$i" | sed 's=.*/==' >> $name
echo "$core" >> $name
echo "$core" | sed 's=.*/==' >> $name
echo "$COUNTER|crc" >> $name
echo "" >> $name
done

When you run the script from a terminal/CLI, it will ask you to enter the path to the core library used to launch the content you're scanning, the path to the directory to be scanned and a name for the playlist, then it'll scan through the specified directory for any files and add them to a new playlist.

Askot, a user from the RetroArch forums, made a variation in which you pass the variables directly at launch time instead of answering questions:

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=1
for i in $2/*; do
echo "$i" >> $3
echo $i | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' | sed 's/.*\///' >> $3
echo "$1" >> $3
echo "$1" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' | sed 's/.*\///' >> $3
echo "$COUNTER|crc" >> $3
echo "" >> $3
COUNTER=$[$COUNTER +1]
done

It also removes the file extension from the playlist entries, which some people may prefer (e.g., Tetris instead of Tetris.nes). You would use it like this:
./dumbscan /path/to/core.so /path/to/content /path/to/playlist.lpl

Reader Unknown commented that the above script(s) can fail on files with spaces in the names and will leave dupes if you scan the same directory multiple times. This version should alleviate those issues:

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=1
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'

if [ -f $3 ]
then
rm $3
fi

for I in $2/*
do
echo "${I}" >> $3
echo ${I} | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' | sed 's/.*\///' >> $3
echo "$1" >> $3
echo "$1" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' | sed 's/.*\///' >> $3
echo "$COUNTER|crc" >> $3
echo "DETECT" >> $3
COUNTER=$[$COUNTER +1]
done

IFS=$SAVEIFS

The next script generates basic cue sheets for disc image files that don't have them already, like iso and img. This will make (most of) them usable with the Mednafen/Beetle-PSX core.

#!/bin/bash
longname=`echo "$@" | sed 's=.*/=='`
name=`echo "$@" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' | sed 's/.*\///'`
if [ -e "$name".cue ]
then
echo "Cue sheet \"$name.cue\" already exists. Aborting."
else
echo "FILE \"$longname\" BINARY" >> "$name".cue
echo "TRACK 01 MODE1/2352"       >> "$name".cue
echo "INDEX 01 00:00:00"                >> "$name".cue
fi

You would use it like this:
./cuemaker whatever.iso