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What is adhocify?
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adhocify uses inotify to watch for file system events.
Once an event occurs it can execute a script.
The path of the file and the event will be passed to that script.
adhocify uses inotify to watch for file system events. Once an event
occurs it can execute a script. The path of the file and the event
will be passed to that script.
Requirements
============
adhocify only runs on Linux. You need a kernel and libc with inotify support.
adhocify only runs on Linux. You need a kernel and libc with inotify
support - pretty much all satisfy this condition.
Options
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See adhocify --help.
Examples:
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./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
adhocify -w /tmp/ /home/user/myscript.sh
Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in /tmp/ and
launches script /home/user/myscript.sh
/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/ /home/user/myscript.sh {}
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
adhocify -w /tmp/ /bin/echo the file {} was written to
Running echo "Test" > /tmp/test will print in the shell
adhocify was launched in: "the file /tmp/test was written to"
Will print in the shell adhocify was launched in:
the file /tmp/test was written to
adhocify -w /tmp/ -w /var/run /home/user/myscript.sh
Same as above, but also watches /var/run
./adhocify -w /tmp/ -w /var/run /home/core/myscript.sh
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Same as above, but also watches /var/run
adhocify /home/user/myscript.sh
Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in the current directory, launches script
/home/user/myscript.
./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/user/myscript.sh
Watches for IN_OPEN events in /tmp/, launches script /home/user/myscript.sh
./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/user/myscript.sh
Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in /tmp/ but will not pass *.txt files to the script
./adhocify -w /tmp -i *.txt /home/core/myscript.sh
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Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in /tmp/ but will not pass *.txt files to the script
Further options
===============
-e, --exit-with-child: Instructs adhocify to exit once the script does. You can also specify an exit code, e. g. -e 1, to only exit when the script returns with an error. Default exit code is 0.