Create a watcher based on shell script #486
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Improve handling of files due to inotifywait having an event CLOSE_WRITE after a file has been written.
Was only reacting on a single change, if another change occurred during the conversion the event was missed.
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Sorry... no, I'm not going to add a shell script because I don't want to commit to maintaining one. It seems like watchdog just doesn't solve this yet since it seems soluble only in Windows and Linux. There are some packages that wrap inotify, like this one... I toyed with the clunky but portable idea of using watchdog to watch for created/modified, and using |
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To overcome some shortcomings as discussed in pull request #479, I created a minimal shell script based on
inotifywaittool. The advantage is the inotify eventCLOSE_WRITE, which is exactly the event OCRmyPDF should run after IMHO. Also, it is easy to include all command line options for OCRmyPDF, since it is called directly from the shell script.