breaking the loop in bash programming - linux

Question

This code is working fine with me I am new to bash programming I want loop to run only once and I dont want loop to run and watermark the all videos. Instead I want to break the loop when first video is done.
#!/bin/bash
#!!!!!!VARIABLES!!!!!!
VIDEOS_PATH='/home/danny/public_html/videowork/'
LOGO_PATH='/home/danny/public_html/watermark_pics/'
DATABASE_INFORMATION='/home/danny/public_html/videowork/db.txt'
#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if find $VIDEOS_PATH -name '*.mp4' 2> /dev/null
then
for file in $(find $VIDEOS_PATH -name '*.mp4')
do
echo "User: ".$(whoami)
echo "File: "$file" has been detected"
sitename=$(echo $file | awk -F $VIDEOS_PATH '{print $2}')
sitename=$(echo $sitename |awk -F '/' '{print $1}')
echo "File sitename is: "$sitename
logo=$LOGO_PATH$sitename.png
echo "Watermark picture has been located in: "$logo
echo "Encoding "$file" to /home/"$sitename"/public_html/yt/"$(basename $file)
ffmpeg -i $file -vcodec libx264 -acodec copy -vf "movie=$logo [watermark]; [in][watermark] overlay=10:10 [out]" /home/$sitename/public_html/yt/$(basename $file)
thumbnail=$(basename $file .mp4)
thumbnail=$VIDEOS_PATH$sitename"/"$(echo $thumbnail).jpg
mv $thumbnail /home/$sitename/public_html/yt/
rm $file
echo "/home/$sitename/public_html/yt/$(basename $file)"
for line in $(cat $DATABASE_INFORMATION)
do
database=$(echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $1}')
password=$(echo $line | awk -F '|' '{print $2}')
echo "Database detected: "$database
echo "Password: "$password
videoid=$(basename $file .mp4)
if [[ $(echo $database) == $(echo $sitename) ]]
then
php -f /home/danny/public_html/videowork/database_job.php -- $(echo $database) $(echo $password) $(echo $videoid)
#echo "php -f database_job.php -- "$(echo $database)" "$(echo $password)" "$(echo $videoid)
fi
done
done
fi
If I add "break" before last fi? would it be fine? I tried but it didnt work well

Answer 1

Using a looping construct only to break after the first iteration is silly. Instead, don't use that construct at all. For instance, with bash 4.x or newer, you can completely avoid use of find entirely:
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar nullglob
videos=( "$VIDEOS_PATH"/**/*.mp4 )
(( ${#videos[#]} )) || { echo "No videos found" >&2; exit 1; }
file=${videos[0]}
# ...transcode "$file" here
For compatibility with bash 3.x, one might change this a bit to still use find (albeit with -print0 and an appropriate read construct to handle filenames with unusual characters):
#!/bin/bash
IFS= read -r -d '' file < <(find "$VIDEOS_PATH" -name '*.mp4' -print0)
[[ $file ]] || { echo "No videos found" >&2; exit 1; }
# ...transcode "$file" here