#!/bin/bash # Klimbim Software collection, A bag full of things # Copyright (C) 2011-2023 Johannes 'Banana' Keßler # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # 2016 http://www.bananas-playground.net # create a loop which checks for file modifications. # If so start a process # this loop waits 10 seconds and checks if there are files modified in the past 10 seconds. # color the output cecho () { local red='\033[0;31m' local blue='\033[0;34m' local green='\033[0;32m' local cyan='\033[0;36m' local purple='\033[0;35m' local brown='\033[0;33m' local yellow='\033[1;33m' local white='\033[1;37m' local black='\033[0;30m' local message=$1 local color=${!2-$white} echo -en "$color" echo "$message" echo -en "\033[0m" # reset color return } target=/path/to/dir; found=; if [ -z $target ] ; then cecho "Missing target" red; exit 1; fi if [ -d "$target" ]; then while : do found=`find $target -mtime -10s -type f` if [ ! -z "$found" ] ; then cecho "do some'"; fi sleep 10 done fi