finding a way to wait for an unknown named file to appear in a directory and then doing something with it
I have a dir called /media/simc/, I want to to set something up to monitor /media/simc/, and when a file is put in it (from this machine or any other on the network, it is a network mounted dir itself), I want to take that file and do stuff with it ("stuff", in this case meaning reading the contents and passing them to a command)
(I also want to exclude a specific filename from the watch, say notest.txt)
The issues are I do not know what this file is going to be named, but I do know one thing it is not going to be named that I need excluded, and I have zero clue what I'm doing generally.
I thought inotifywait was the answer after some googling, and set up a quick demo for myself with this just to test that it would see stuff I put in there and do...stuff
inotifywait -m /media/simc/ -e create
(also tried with moved-to but not related really)
Then made a file in the dir and...nothing. After some troubleshooting I found out that I have to create a file in it through the machine itself, whereas my usecase is I have this directory available on the network and will be moving files into it from other machines, which when I do does not seem to proc the output.
So using nano test gives me what I want:
/media/simc/ CREATE .test.swp
but when I move a file into the directory or create one in it from another machine, no dice.
What are my options?
shell-script daemon inotify
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I have a dir called /media/simc/, I want to to set something up to monitor /media/simc/, and when a file is put in it (from this machine or any other on the network, it is a network mounted dir itself), I want to take that file and do stuff with it ("stuff", in this case meaning reading the contents and passing them to a command)
(I also want to exclude a specific filename from the watch, say notest.txt)
The issues are I do not know what this file is going to be named, but I do know one thing it is not going to be named that I need excluded, and I have zero clue what I'm doing generally.
I thought inotifywait was the answer after some googling, and set up a quick demo for myself with this just to test that it would see stuff I put in there and do...stuff
inotifywait -m /media/simc/ -e create
(also tried with moved-to but not related really)
Then made a file in the dir and...nothing. After some troubleshooting I found out that I have to create a file in it through the machine itself, whereas my usecase is I have this directory available on the network and will be moving files into it from other machines, which when I do does not seem to proc the output.
So using nano test gives me what I want:
/media/simc/ CREATE .test.swp
but when I move a file into the directory or create one in it from another machine, no dice.
What are my options?
shell-script daemon inotify
asked 34 mins ago
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If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
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32 mins ago
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I have a dir called /media/simc/, I want to to set something up to monitor /media/simc/, and when a file is put in it (from this machine or any other on the network, it is a network mounted dir itself), I want to take that file and do stuff with it ("stuff", in this case meaning reading the contents and passing them to a command)
(I also want to exclude a specific filename from the watch, say notest.txt)
The issues are I do not know what this file is going to be named, but I do know one thing it is not going to be named that I need excluded, and I have zero clue what I'm doing generally.
I thought inotifywait was the answer after some googling, and set up a quick demo for myself with this just to test that it would see stuff I put in there and do...stuff
inotifywait -m /media/simc/ -e create
(also tried with moved-to but not related really)
Then made a file in the dir and...nothing. After some troubleshooting I found out that I have to create a file in it through the machine itself, whereas my usecase is I have this directory available on the network and will be moving files into it from other machines, which when I do does not seem to proc the output.
So using nano test gives me what I want:
/media/simc/ CREATE .test.swp
but when I move a file into the directory or create one in it from another machine, no dice.
What are my options?
shell-script daemon inotify
asked 34 mins ago
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I have a dir called /media/simc/, I want to to set something up to monitor /media/simc/, and when a file is put in it (from this machine or any other on the network, it is a network mounted dir itself), I want to take that file and do stuff with it ("stuff", in this case meaning reading the contents and passing them to a command)
(I also want to exclude a specific filename from the watch, say notest.txt)
The issues are I do not know what this file is going to be named, but I do know one thing it is not going to be named that I need excluded, and I have zero clue what I'm doing generally.
I thought inotifywait was the answer after some googling, and set up a quick demo for myself with this just to test that it would see stuff I put in there and do...stuff
inotifywait -m /media/simc/ -e create
(also tried with moved-to but not related really)
Then made a file in the dir and...nothing. After some troubleshooting I found out that I have to create a file in it through the machine itself, whereas my usecase is I have this directory available on the network and will be moving files into it from other machines, which when I do does not seem to proc the output.
So using nano test gives me what I want:
/media/simc/ CREATE .test.swp
but when I move a file into the directory or create one in it from another machine, no dice.
What are my options?
shell-script daemon inotify
shell-script daemon inotify
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If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
– user863492
32 mins ago
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If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
– user863492
32 mins ago
If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
– user863492
32 mins ago
If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
– user863492
32 mins ago
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If it helps any currently what I'm doing is I manually run a bash script that prompts the user to paste in the stuff in the file then mess with it a little and load it into the command (simcraft, for anyone curious). I'm trying to automate it more so I can just save the file into this directory and have the machine automagically grab the contents, mess with them and pass them on.
– user863492
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