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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.

yum -y install inotify-tools

while true; do inotifywait -r -e MODIFY dir/ && <script>; done;

Tweak as necessary.
HTH.

Sweet, thanks Habitual!

Didn't know of the inotify-tools package.

I assume that dir/ is directory to watch...?

Thank me if it works.

Yes, dir/ is the directory to watch.

Monitor Linux file system events with inotify
Mostly covering what appears to be programming issues with this tool.

I got this gem another Kung-Fu site that I won't mention here (Google is your friend), but I trust its user's input as much as I do those here.

Peace.