Problems monitoring a directory for changes and then executing exiftool
I'm trying to automatically rename all my photos using “exiftool”, which would be very easy, if it were not because I want to do it using a special monitored directory as input to it, thanks to “entr”.
Let me explain, the idea is that when a modification in the "input" directory is detected by “entr”, it calls “exiftool” who renames all photos in this directory. Something like:
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
echo /input | entr -d exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S' '-FileName<${CreateDate}.${FileTypeExtension}' /input
done
When I copy 5 photos or less, all is working as expected. But... Problems arise when coping several photos at once to the "input" directory... Maybe a race condition is happening? Like “entr” is calling several times to “exiftool” to rename several times the same photos?
So, I have thought about putting a condition to “entr” to only call “exiftool” if it's not already running. But... I have no idea how to do it, or if there is a better way to solve this problem...
And please, excuse my poor English.
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I'm trying to automatically rename all my photos using “exiftool”, which would be very easy, if it were not because I want to do it using a special monitored directory as input to it, thanks to “entr”.
Let me explain, the idea is that when a modification in the "input" directory is detected by “entr”, it calls “exiftool” who renames all photos in this directory. Something like:
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
echo /input | entr -d exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S' '-FileName<${CreateDate}.${FileTypeExtension}' /input
done
When I copy 5 photos or less, all is working as expected. But... Problems arise when coping several photos at once to the "input" directory... Maybe a race condition is happening? Like “entr” is calling several times to “exiftool” to rename several times the same photos?
So, I have thought about putting a condition to “entr” to only call “exiftool” if it's not already running. But... I have no idea how to do it, or if there is a better way to solve this problem...
And please, excuse my poor English.
shell-script
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vicmartovicmarto
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I'm trying to automatically rename all my photos using “exiftool”, which would be very easy, if it were not because I want to do it using a special monitored directory as input to it, thanks to “entr”.
Let me explain, the idea is that when a modification in the "input" directory is detected by “entr”, it calls “exiftool” who renames all photos in this directory. Something like:
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
echo /input | entr -d exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S' '-FileName<${CreateDate}.${FileTypeExtension}' /input
done
When I copy 5 photos or less, all is working as expected. But... Problems arise when coping several photos at once to the "input" directory... Maybe a race condition is happening? Like “entr” is calling several times to “exiftool” to rename several times the same photos?
So, I have thought about putting a condition to “entr” to only call “exiftool” if it's not already running. But... I have no idea how to do it, or if there is a better way to solve this problem...
And please, excuse my poor English.
shell-script
asked 13 hours ago
vicmartovicmarto
32
I'm trying to automatically rename all my photos using “exiftool”, which would be very easy, if it were not because I want to do it using a special monitored directory as input to it, thanks to “entr”.
Let me explain, the idea is that when a modification in the "input" directory is detected by “entr”, it calls “exiftool” who renames all photos in this directory. Something like:
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
echo /input | entr -d exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S' '-FileName<${CreateDate}.${FileTypeExtension}' /input
done
When I copy 5 photos or less, all is working as expected. But... Problems arise when coping several photos at once to the "input" directory... Maybe a race condition is happening? Like “entr” is calling several times to “exiftool” to rename several times the same photos?
So, I have thought about putting a condition to “entr” to only call “exiftool” if it's not already running. But... I have no idea how to do it, or if there is a better way to solve this problem...
And please, excuse my poor English.
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