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Saty
Saty

Reputation: 2621

Invoking a shell script when modification of file happens in a directory

I am organizing a movie library when many users update movie files and then I manually update a Database using a PHP script so that from the URL user can know the list of movie residing in the library.

I know I can make an entry to Crontab in Linux so that in every 10 hour it run the PHP script to update the database however I wanted to know is there a way in which PHP file can be run automatically when user paste a movie file to the database kind of notifier which will invoke the php so the database can be updated in real time?

I am using Linux Mint.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (1)

Aif
Aif

Reputation: 11220

You can use incron which is an inotify based crontab.

For instance, here is a sample you can use with incrontab -e:

/home/moviedb/download IN_CLOSE_WRITE /home/moviedb/classify-script.php $#

which will hook on the /home/moviedb/download folder for any finished download (closed file) and run the classify-script.php with the event related filename.

Upvotes: 1

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