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author | Bill <bill@billserver.senders.io> | 2022-03-19 11:14:03 -0400 |
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committer | Bill <bill@billserver.senders.io> | 2022-03-19 11:14:03 -0400 |
commit | c371488a184ce659bf28171a3fdde37f3ec390bf (patch) | |
tree | 62b97828d3b3f512d0154a6c3acc47c9d2b3bfa4 /readme.txt |
Create automv script
Automv script will allow a cronjob to easily move files from one dir to
another based on a find regex query. You can dynamically set what files
to look for and where using .conf files in the automv.d folder present
next to the script - or by setting its location in AUTOMV_DIR.
Dev note: I specifically avoided using $HOME/.local/automv.d/ because my
specific use case the user whose cron this will be in doesn't have a
home directory. An improvement could be expanding the smart defaults to
doing something like:
if [[ -n "$HOME" ]]; then
if [[ -d $HOME/.local/automv.d ]]; then
# use that
else # etc
else # etc
But I don't like long bash if/else nesting so I figured just set a local
default otherwise override in the env
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diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05922ef --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +automv.sh +========= + +Usage: + ./automv.sh + +Prereqs: + Requires bash with the tools: + grep + xargs + find + +Setup: + the script searches the directory: + ./automv.d/ + for any .conf files + +Overriding the automv.d location: + If you want to set a different automv.d location setup the: + AUTOMV_DIR + environment variable + +automv.d/ conf syntax +===================== + +The conf files use the following syntax: + +# comments +query=<query> + this is the query you want to use in 'find -regex' +source=<source-dir> + this is the directory you want to search in +target=<target-dir> + this is the target directory to move the found files to + +We explicitly parse out those 3 properties (see extract function in script) + +!!! Note - do not quote wrap anything - the script expects unwrapped values + +example conf +============ + +# jpegmv.conf +# moves jpeg files downloaded to pictures +query=.*\.jp[e]?g +source=/home/user/Downloads/ +target=/home/user/Pictures/ + |