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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To track any modification in a specfic file Post 302433383 by pseudocoder on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 11:33:59 AM
Old 06-29-2010
Code:
#!/bin/sh

file="/path/to/file"
destdir="/dest/dir"

if [ ! -e $file ]; then
echo "file $file not present"
exit 1;
fi

l=$(stat -f %Sm $file)

while true; do
 c=$(stat -f %Sm $file 2>/dev/null)
  if [ "$l" != "$c" ]; then
   mv "$file" $destdir 2>/dev/null
  fi
 sleep 5
  if [ ! -e $file ]; then
   echo "file $file not present, waiting for $file..."
  fi
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

metapixel

METAPIXEL(1)															      METAPIXEL(1)

NAME

       metapixel - generator for photomosaics

SYNOPSIS

       metapixel-prepare [options] [srcdir] [destdir]

			 prepares the pictures in srcdir by creating resized images and a table file in destdir

       metapixel [options] [--metapixel input.jpg output.png --library destdir]

		 creates a photomosaic output.png using input.jpg as the input image and destdir/tables.mxt as table file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the metapixel and metapixel-prepare commands. For more information check the README file included in the
       distribution.

       metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix
       of  equally  sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular
       parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images.

       metapixel-prepare is a utility that needs to be run before metapixel can be used. It prepares your source images so that they can  be  used
       by metapixel to create the actual photomosaic.

USAGE

       metapixel-prepare  srcdir  destdir  has	to  be	run  first.  srcdir is the path to the directory containing the source images, e.g. ~/Pic-
       tures/Holidays. destdir, e.g. ~/.metapixel, is the path to the directory where you want to store the rescaled images and the tables.mxt in-
       dex file. This directory should be created manually before running metapixel-prepare.

       metapixel  --metapixel input.jpg output.png --library destdir is then used to transform an image (input.jpg) into a mosaic (output.png) us-
       ing the source images (described by destdir/tables.mxt).

OPTIONS

       The options are described in the README file or by running metapixel or metapixel-prepare with the --help option.

SEE ALSO

       The README file is included in the Metapixel distribution.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Chris Vanden Berghe <Chris@VandenBerghe.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).	Permission
       is  granted  to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

       Chris Vanden Berghe.

								    May 5, 2004 						      METAPIXEL(1)
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