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 files/folders with spaces, parentheses, and brackets).
On IN_CREATE events (files are added), allows you to process these files with any arbitrary set of commands that you define.
Performs sanity checks and cleanup tasks to ensure that incrontab is maintained up-to-date and recovers from race conditions.

To use: make an intial update your incrontab entry to look like this:

/path/to/monitored/dir IN_CREATE,IN_DELETE,IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_MOVED_TO /path/to/update.py $# $@ $%

Also ensure that you:

Change the variables: scriptPath, curUser, updatePy
Update the processFile() commands to your liking. You can add addition logic here if you so desire.
chmod +x the script
Write access the watched folder.

Note: This script has been designed and will only work to monitor a +single+ root directory. It can be updated to handle more. Please share a new fork if you implement this!

Lastly, shouts out to Thang for the original version of this script! (https://github.com/nguyent/incron-recursive) Brilliant work!

Cheers, Joseph

skupjoe/incron-recursive

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