12-13-2007
script to watch changes on a directory
Hi, everybody
I want to know hot to watch changes on a dir, for example if someone changes a file inside it, with an script. I've tried using md5sum and then diff, sadly with no success.
I use md5sum for single files, but doesn't work for directories. The idea is take a snapshot with md5sum, store it on a text file and the put a cron to do the same and compare it with diff against the text file.
Well, if you already got this kind of script, maybe you can share with me.
Thanks!!!
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gst-md5sum
GStreamer(1) General Commands Manual GStreamer(1)
NAME
gst-md5sum - get an md5sum of a GStreamer pipeline through md5sink
SYNOPSIS
gst-md5sum [OPTION...] PARTIAL-PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
gst-md5sum generates MD5 checksums of the data generated by a GStreamer pipeline.
In theory, running
gst-md5sum filesrc location=music.mp3
should print out the same checksum as
md5sum music.mp3
The pipeline should be incomplete, that is, a final sink element should be omitted, so that gst-md5sum can connect the pipeline to an
md5sink element.
See the man page for gst-launch or the GStreamer docuementation for more information on how to create a PARTIAL-PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION.
OPTIONS
gst-md5sum accepts the following options:
--help Print help synopsis and available FLAGS
-v Output verbose information
--gst-info-mask=FLAGS
GStreamer info flags to set (list with --help)
--gst-debug-mask=FLAGS
GStreamer debugging flags to set (list with --help)
--gst-mask=FLAGS
GStreamer info and debugging flags to set (list with --help)
--gst-plugin-spew
GStreamer info flags to set Enable printout of errors while loading GStreamer plugins
--gst-plugin-path=PATH
Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path
SEE ALSO
gst-launch(1)
AUTHOR
The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.net/
September 2002 GStreamer(1)