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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script Question (find, rsync) Post 302579693 by Skrynesaver on Tuesday 6th of December 2011 11:01:48 AM
Old 12-06-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by pmicka
Hello all,

I'm using rsync to maintain two copies of a music library on my main workstation and a server running MPD. I'm wondering about using the script below as a basis for cron to update my MPD db if new files have been added or existing files modified:
Code:
find -type f -iname 'FILENAME' -mmin -10 -exec 'script' \;

Would it be ill advised to simply put ~/music/*.mp3 for FILENAME? with ~160GB of music in that dir?
what file system are you using and what's the limit on the number of files allowed in a directory of that filesystem
Quote:
Originally Posted by pmicka
Would I perhaps be able to use -type d to monitor the directory itself for changes? In which case, what denotes a change to the directory (ie, adding a file?)
perhaps using the -mmin setting on your find call above would work?

But what zaxxon said, what's wrong with rsync?
 

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