beemer

beemer executes a custom command on files written in the watched directory and deletes it. Optionally, queue files in a .tar file and execute the command when the number of files in the archive reaches NUMBER (see usage).

Usage

NAME:
   beemer - Execute a command on a file after a delay of inactivity

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
  --transfers value, -t value          Number of simultaneous transfers (default: 10)
  --command value, -c value            Will be executed on file write. You can use %file, %name and %dir. Example: "rclone move %file remote:/beem/%dir"
  --wait DELAY, -w DELAY               Files will be beemed after DELAY of inactivity (default: 10s)
  --directory DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY  DIRECTORY to watch.
  --tar NUMBER                         Fill a .tar file with up to NUMBER file before executing the beem command.
                                       Set to '1' to disable this feature (default: 1)
  --exclude value, -e value            Exclude files that match the regex pattern
  --help, -h                           show help
  --version, -v                        print the version

Examples

Bundle up to 100 files in a tar file before moving to another directory

*Note that %dir is always /tmp/beemer when --tar is specified

When --tar NUM is specified, the beem command will be called at most every NUM new files. It will also be called during cleanup when SIGINT (Ctrl-C) is received.

./beemer -w 1s -d ./test --tar 100 -c "mv %file /mnt/store/my_tars/"

Upload file to an rclone remote when it has been inactive for at least 30s, keeps the directory structure

./beemer -w 30s -d ./test -c "rclone move %file remote:/beem/%dir"

Send file via SSH, ignoring the local directory structure

./beemer -d ./test -c "scp %file worker@StagingServer:flatdir/"

Upload file to transfer.sh, store URLs in urls.txt

./beemer -w 1s -d ./test -c "bash -c \"curl -s -w '\\n' --upload-file %file https://transfer.sh/%name &>> urls.txt\""

Beem command template

Special sequence	Description	Example
%file	Full path of the modified file	/tmp/beemer/test/a/myFile.txt
%name	Name of the modified file	myFile.txt
%dir	Directory of the modified file, relative to the watched dir.	test/a