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@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
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