Version 1 (modified by Waldorf, 12 years ago) (diff) |
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Watch Directory Script
Notes
To run this script at an interval, add this to your crontab.
Script "watchdog.sh"
#!/bin/bash # # Authentication "username:password" #tr_auth="admin:admin" # Watch dir, may contain spaces: watchdir="/torrentwatch/" # move file to a subdirectory? if Commented out, it'll be removed. # *Don't put a '/' before the path* movesubdir="added/" # Verbose? verbose=1 for file in "$watchdir"*.torrent do if [ -f "$file" ]; then if [ $verbose ]; then echo "$file added to queue."; fi else if [ $verbose ]; then echo "No torrent in $watchdir."; fi if [ $tr_auth ]; then /usr/bin/transmission-remote --auth="$tr_auth" -a "$file" else /usr/bin/transmission-remote -a "$file" fi # give the remote some time to process sleep 5 if [ $movesubdir ]; then if [ -d "$watchdir$movesubdir" ]; then mv "$file" "$watchDir$movesubdir" else mkdir "$watchdir$movesubdir" mv "$file" "$watchdir$movesubdir" fi else rm "$file" fi fi done exit 0