An fswatch-based bash-script that, based on a dot file .upsync
in a directory with the correct credentials, watches the directory for
changes and takes the specified upload action. This script is immature and essentially just a configurable wrapper for fswatch.
Licensed under the "Simplified BSD license", which is FSF approved, so it should work well with the licensing terms of fswatch. Drop me a line if you disagree.
This version of upsync works with fswatch-1.3.9 and
fswatch-1.4.0, and since it doesn't use may features of it, probably
somewhat older versions. As of now, only tested on Mac OS X
10.9.4, with GNU bash, version 4.3.11.
Testing under way on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE.
None, but neither does it have a great many features.
- Better error messages (e.g. when starting the script)
- Document the script better (work in progress)
Let's say we have a directory
/tmp/watched_dir/
├── .git
│ └── some_git_file
├── .upsync
├── ignored_dir
│ └── source_file_3.src
├── just_a_dir
│ └── source_file_2.src
└── source_file.src
and the contents of the .upsync file are:
remote_user:root
remote_machine:dev.example.com
remote_directory:/tmp/watched_dir
remote_method:rsync -vrP
local_ignore: .git ignored_dir
We launch the upsync command thusly
$ upsync watched_dir
This will watch any file not inside a directory listed in the
local_ignore-configuration variable and send it to the remote server
by issuing, under the supposition that the file
/tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src was the one being
updated, the command
$ rsync -vrP /tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src [email protected]:/tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src
Example output:
$ upsync watched_dir/
++ Uploading file: /Users/fcar/tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src
rsync -vrP /Users/fcar/tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src [email protected]:/tmp/watched_dir/just_a_dir/source_file_2.src
sending incremental file list
source_file_2.src
12 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)
sent 95 bytes received 41 bytes 90.67 bytes/sec
total size is 12 speedup is 0.09