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January 13, 2019 17:27
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Clear a folder when it is "created". For example, when a flash drive is connected and mounted to /path/to/containing/folder, clear the folder inside of it named FOLDER_NAME
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| inotifywait -mq --format '%w%f/FOLDER_NAME/' --event=CREATE /path/to/containing/folder | while read DIR_TO_CLEAR | |
| do | |
| echo "$DIR_TO_CLEAR" | |
| sleep 1 | |
| find "$DIR_TO_CLEAR" -delete | |
| mkdir -p "$DIR_TO_CLEAR" | |
| done |
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