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Script to create inotifywait on directories to trigger Subsonic media scanning
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watch-for-new-media.bash
#!/bin/bash
dirs="/path/to/first/dir /path/to/second/dir /path/to/third/dir"
act="/usr/local/bin/act-on-new-media.bash"
# act="cat"
/bin/inotifywait --monitor --recursive --quiet --format '%w' --event create,moved_to $dirs | while read f
do
$act "$f"
done
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