From bad38f691ec8cebb02f3d63292f28dd9d9f21cb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:31:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] compare media example (exiftool, ffprobe)

Personal use case featuring two popular tools with different strengths and
interfaces.

Omit a third alternative with similar results due to being objectively much
worse in my experience:

	mediainfo --inform='General;%Duration% %OverallBitRate% %FileNameExtension%\n' *
---
 barcat       | 10 ++++++++++
 t/examples.t |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index d8deee4..3744590 100755
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -609,6 +609,16 @@ Same from formatted results, selecting the first numeric value:
 
     tree -s --noreport | barcat -H -f+
 
+Compare media metadata, like image size or play time:
+
+    exiftool -T -p '$megapixels ($imagesize) $filename' * | barcat
+
+    exiftool -T -p '$duration# $avgbitrate# $filename' * | barcat -H
+
+    find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -L1 \
+    ffprobe -show_format -of json -v error |
+    jq -r '[.format|.duration,.bit_rate,.filename]|join(" ")' | barcat -H
+
 Memory usage of user processes with long names truncated:
 
     ps xo rss,pid,cmd | barcat -l40
diff --git a/t/examples.t b/t/examples.t
index c5648ad..874b94a 100755
--- a/t/examples.t
+++ b/t/examples.t
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ while (readline $input) {
 		s/\\\n\s*//g;         # line continuations
 		s/^[(\h]+//;          # subshell
 		s/^echo\ .*?\|\s*//;  # preceding input
+		s/'(\S+)[^']*'/$1/g;  # quoted arguments
 		s/\|.*//;             # subsequent pipes
 		s/^cat\ //;           # local file
 		s/^curl\ // and do {  # remote url
-- 
2.30.0