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authorBill <bill@billserver.senders.io>2022-03-19 11:14:03 -0400
committerBill <bill@billserver.senders.io>2022-03-19 11:14:03 -0400
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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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+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 Note - do not quote wrap anything - the script expects unwrapped values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/
+