On 24/02/17 11:21 PM, Scott Elcomb via talk wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2017-02-20 12:47 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
Hi Stewart, you could just |watch| the file listing (adjusting n seconds
to whatever is suitable)
|watch --differences -n 10 ls -l </path/to/shared/dir>|
I hadn't heard of watch before, so thanks! watch *started* to work
really well, but then went into a terminal sulk after the FS disappeared
during a scan, and refused to show any updates. It's also an interactive
program, so doesn't pipe or notify changes in any useful way.
I suspect I'll just have to go with William Park's suggestion of using
rsync to a local folder that I have more control over. I still have to
correct for the scanner FS's wandering clock, but that's less important.
Here's a quick and dirty bash script similar to the watch command;
adjust to taste. :-)
[- watchdir.sh snippet starts -]
[- watchdir.sh snippet ends -]
I have a similar function named "waitfor", as it's typically used to
wait for a file to stop changing, like
$ do_something >foo &
$ waitfor foo && mailx -s "do_something completed" davecb <foo
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