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 - pretty much all satisfy this condition.

Options

See adhocify --help.

Examples:

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/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

• 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/user/myscript.sh

• 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 -m IN_OPEN -w /tmp /home/user/myscript.sh

• Watches for IN_OPEN events in /tmp/, launches script /home/user/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