Hi Glenn,
SUCCESS! Thankyou. Even the printer is working correctly. My daughter will
love this, and I am very grateful, and moreso for the education. I can get
some sleep now.
Cheers
Andrew Greig
On 17 Jun 2016 9:39 pm, "Glenn McIntosh" <neonsignal(a)meme.net.au> wrote:
> On 17/06/16 19:04, Andrew Greig wrote:
> > Here is the output from a cheese webcam photo
> > andrewg@linux-ltv0:~> inotifywait -m ~/Pictures/Webcam
> > Setting up watches.
> > Watches established.
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ CREATE 2016-06-17-185734.jpg.C4S7IY
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ OPEN 2016-06-17-185734.jpg.C4S7IY
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ MODIFY 2016-06-17-185734.jpg.C4S7IY
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE
> > 2016-06-17-185734.jpg.C4S7IY
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ MOVED_FROM 2016-06-17-185734.jpg.C4S7IY
> > /home/andrewg/Pictures/Webcam/ MOVED_TO 2016-06-17-185734.jpg
> > I have no idea why cheese would append the extra characters
>
> It isn't uncommon for programs to create a temporary and then only
> rename when the file is complete, perhaps this was changed in an update
> to cheese.
>
> Anyway, it just means you would set the inotifywait to watch for the
> moved_to instead of the close_write, so that you pick up the final file,
> ie:
>
> inotifywait -m -e moved_to ~/Pictures/Webcam --format "%w%f"
> etc
>
> Glenn
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