• Final Cut Server,  Xsan

    The Final Cut Server Command Line

    Final Cut Server has a fairly robust, albeit fairly unsupported command line.  The following is a list of some useful commands, along with their paths and functions: The following are in /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Server/Final Cut Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin: fcsvr_run allows you to interact with the database, amongst other things.  To interact with the database use psql as the first positional parameter and then pxdb as the second, to identify which database you will interact with.  You can then run a select statement in quotations to do a variety of tasks, such as tallying up the number of assets in a database, etc.  Once you have certain information you can then use grep…