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What is adhocify?
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adhocify uses inotify to watch for file system events.
Once an event occurs a script will be launched.
It can pass the path of the file the event occured on to this script.
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Requirements
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adhocify only runs on Linux. You need a kernel and libc with inotify support.
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How do I use adhocify?
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Launch adhocify without any arguments and you will get the options listed.
Examples:
./adhocify -w /tmp/ /home/core/myscript.sh
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Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in /tmp/, launches script /home/core/myscript.sh
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/adhocify -w /tmp/ /home/core/myscript.sh {}
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Same as above, but also passes the file an event occured on to that script. (argv[1]).
./adhocify -w /tmp/ /bin/echo the file {} was written to
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Running
echo "Test" > /tmp/test
Will print in the shell adhocify was launched in:
the file /tmp/test was written to
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./adhocify -w /tmp/ -w /var/run /home/core/myscript.sh
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Same as above, but also watches /var/run
./adhocify /home/core/myscript.sh
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Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in the current directory, launches script
/home/core/myscript.
./adhocify -m IN_OPEN -w /tmp /home/core/myscript.sh
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Watches for IN_OPEN events in /tmp/, launches script /home/core/myscript.sh
./adhocify -w /tmp -i *.txt /home/core/myscript.sh
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... ignores *.txt files ....
Further options
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-e, --exit-with-child: Instructs adhocify to exit once a child does. You can also specify an exit code, e. g. -e 1, to exit on errors. Default is 0.