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Old 07-25-2010
Watch directory and move specific file extensions

Hi all,

This is actually more for my lazyness then anything else, but I think others might find it useful to use as well. Basically this is what I am trying to achieve...

In my ubuntu home dir under Downloads is where firefox saves everything by default, now I know that you can manually specify anywhere that you want things saved to but, this would just be not lazy enough as I love the convenience of hitting download etc.

So, I have created a basic little mv script that moves certain file types out and sorts them in directories throughout my home dir. ie. .torrent files get placed in a directory called Torrents, avi/mpg/wmv get placed in Videos and .mp3 get placed in Music (hmm gotta take that further also).

So, currently this script is just running as a every minute cron, however, this still isn't soon enough, I want it to be instant! using watch or sumthing like that. Problem is I use uTorrent webUI and when I save a file I go to upload it through the interface but it isn't in the torrents directory yet, so I go back to the Downloads folder but it's now moved... gets rather annoying.

So yeah if anyone can help me out on how to watch a directory for files and when something matches criteria (ie. .mp3) then move it to directory X, would be mighty appreciated.

Thanks,
Aaron.
 

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FLUSH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  FLUSH(1)

NAME
Flush - GTK-based BitTorrent client SYNOPSIS
flush [OPTIONS] [TORRENT_FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Flush is a GTK-based BitTorrent client. You can use it to download files from the BitTorrent network. You can control already running instance, for example, by following commands: flush -o --download-rate-limit=100 flush --start=all FEATURES
* Controlling running instance by command line interface, such as: * Starting/stopping torrents. * Changing download/upload rate limit. * Changing maximum connections limit. * Running many instances with different configs from the same user. * Automatic copying finished downloads to specified directory. * Setting custom download path for each file of the torrent. * Ability to choose torrent file's character set encoding. * Automatic torrents loading from specified directory. * Automatic pausing and removing old torrents. * Temporary pausing and resuming torrents. * Overall and current session statistics. * Creating your own torrent files. * IP filter. OPTIONS
--version Show program version and exit. --help Show help options and exit. --config=DIRECTORY Configuration directory path (default: ~/.flush). --download-rate-limit=SPEED Set download rate limit (KB/s). --upload-rate-limit=SPEED Set upload rate limit (KB/s). --max-uploads=NUMBER Set maximum uploads. --max-connections=NUMBER Set maximum connections. --start={all,downloads,uploads} Start torrents. --stop={all,downloads,uploads} Stop torrents. -o, --only-pass Only pass commands to already running Flush instance. Does not start new instance if it is not running yet. FILES
~/.flush Default configuration directory. BUGS
On startup Flush finds already running instances via DBus session bus. Therefore it is necessary to run Flush in a single session bus (usual in X session bus) to prevent running several instances with one configuration path. Please notice that when you are running Flush from console or by cron, when DISPLAY environment variable is not available, Flush finds already running GUI instance without problems via ${config_path}/dbus_session link, which all GUI instances are creating when they have owned DBus name. This makes it possible to control running Flush GUI instances from cron. AUTHOR
Flush was written by Dmitry Konishchev <konishchev@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Dmitry Konishchev <konishchev@gmail.com>. Jun 11, 2009 FLUSH(1)
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