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authorBill <bill@billserver.senders.io>2022-03-19 14:09:23 -0400
committerBill <bill@billserver.senders.io>2022-03-19 14:09:23 -0400
commitbeb08521b1cb06aa2c282a6752c7b588326fa025 (patch)
treee0f5a653ace4bd7f6f212b17691b618ce4e20e80 /readme.txt
parentc371488a184ce659bf28171a3fdde37f3ec390bf (diff)
Improve logging and change default .d dir
Rather than looking at the environment varible otherwise use the local automv.d directory - set it to something more centralized in the environement e.g /usr/local/etc/automv.d/ Also the logs were unclear what was happening so extracted the find query into a function to be able to run/rerun it a few times to improve the existing logging. I wonder if there is a better way to print what is happening in the xargs w/o repeating the move a bunch: fn_mv { echo "Moving: $1 to $2" mv $1 $2 } and call: find ... | xargs -I'{}' fn_mv {} $target Perhaps?
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Prereqs:
Setup:
the script searches the directory:
- ./automv.d/
+ /usr/local/etc/automv.d/
for any .conf files
Overriding the automv.d location:
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Overriding the automv.d location:
AUTOMV_DIR
environment variable
+How it works:
+ it basically automates the finding of non-hidden files in the source dir
+ and will move them to an existing directory
+
automv.d/ conf syntax
=====================
@@ -46,3 +50,13 @@ query=.*\.jp[e]?g
source=/home/user/Downloads/
target=/home/user/Pictures/
+Nice to haves / Tasks to be done
+================================
+
+[ ] Better logging (timestamps n such) - we repeat the find like 3 times to be
+ able to get better logs / printing
+[ ] More flexibility / configurability
+[ ] Fault tolerance
+[ ] Auto mkdir -p if the target dir doesn't exist?
+[ ] Multiple queries per file? What if you have diverging regexes? does find support ORs?
+