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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hotfolder with inotify-tools, loop FOR not working Post 303015528 by apmcd47 on Friday 6th of April 2018 08:21:18 AM
Old 04-06-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by pasaico
Thnk you for your answer. after I will try your suggestion
the problem with myscript:
If in the HOTFOLDER there are 10 .xlsx files and then I copy a new one, the loop works all file to the end.
If there is no file inside the HOTFOLDER and then I copy 10.xlsx, the loop processes only one
It is because of the way you were using inotifywait.
Code:
inotifywait -e create /some/dir

will wait for the create event in /some/dir, report that event and exit.

You copy 10 files into that directory and only the first is processed because the script is finished (or at least the wildcard *.xlsx is expanded) before the second file is added.

Code:
inotifywait -m -e create /some/dir | while read dir event file

will run the loop for every file added to the directory /some/dir and will process the files one-at-a-time.

Andrew
 

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NAME
"IO::Async::Signal" - event callback on receipt of a POSIX signal SYNOPSIS
use IO::Async::Signal; use IO::Async::Loop; my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new; my $signal = IO::Async::Signal->new( name => "HUP", on_receipt => sub { print "I caught SIGHUP "; }, ); $loop->add( $signal ); $loop->run; DESCRIPTION
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