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Hello,
I am using rsync to make sure that my folder "local" mirrors the remote directory "remote". When a file is copied from "remote" to "local", I need to apply a bash script to it. What would be a neat way to do that?

Thanks

ps: is there a way to edit the title of the thread (I am a bit ashamed of the "where" instead of "were"?

Ok, I follow you right, you want to mirror all the files from remote to local (not sure if changes to local need to go remote though). After you rsync you want to (do something) to all the files individually that had been changed (lets say perhaps you want to dos2unix them). Well obviously after you dos2unix them, and you run rsync again your going to mirror all those files again since you changed them which is a problem.

Assuming you know this and are copying the files elsewhere after being proicessed, rather that using rsync's --out-format or --log-format and then grinding on that you can simply something akin to this, as long as the timestamps aren't being copied over and your just using size/crc to do the mirror.

Code:

touch TEMPFILE
rsync --opts SOURCE TARGET
find TARGET -type f --newer TEMPFILE --exec BASHSCRIPT "{}" ";"
rm TEMPFILE

sciprtfile | tee filename.log

this will copy the output into a file

or

scriptfile | mail -s "backup files" user@domain.com

Copying doesn't seem to be the issue, processing the changes is.

HPAVC,

Thanks for the idea. I added a sleep 1 between the creation of the temp file and the rsync call because it seems to me that the -newer means strictly newer.

Yeah, the find syntax and my tired mind was probably an issue too.