What is adhocify? ================= 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. Examples: ========= ./adhocify -w /tmp/ /home/core/myscript.sh ------------------------------------------ Watches for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events in /tmp/, launches script /home/core/myscript.sh /adhocify -w /tmp/ /home/core/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 --------------------------------------------------------- Running echo "Test" > /tmp/test Will print in the shell adhocify was launched in: the file /tmp/test was written to ./adhocify -w /tmp/ -w /var/run /home/core/myscript.sh ------------------------------------------------------ Same as above, but also watches /var/run ./adhocify /home/core/myscript.sh --------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------- Watches for IN_OPEN events in /tmp/, launches script /home/core/myscript.sh ./adhocify -w /tmp -i *.txt /home/core/myscript.sh -------------------------------------------------- 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.