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incron-recursive

What this script does:

  • Recursive monitoring with incron, for newly created subdirectories in a parent folder.
  • Adds new watches to incrontab for newly created folders
  • Updates incrontab when files/folders are arbitrarily renamed/removed [including folders with spaces]
  • Add a .alternates folder to every newly created folder under the parent folder.
  • On IN_CREATE events [files are added], HandBrakeCLI & ffmpeg are called to create

My incrontab entry looks something like this:

/var/www/examplesite/projects IN_CREATE,IN_DELETE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_MOVED_TO /var/www/examplesite/update.py $# $@ $%

If you want to use this script:

  • Change the variables scriptPath/curUser
  • chmod +x the script
  • Write access the watched folder.

The use case for this script is to monitor uploaded video files to a (watched) directory, and encode them to a webm and iPad format, for mobile viewing/HTML5 playback in Firefox.

Cheers, Thang

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