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I am trying to monitor file creation with inotifywait and execute a long script on every file creation. Everything works smoothly when the action to be taken is on the same server. But when it requires doing something on a remote server, the action runs once even 2 files are created in the monitored directory.

This works even if two or more files are created. :

d="path/dir/path/"
    inotifywait -m  -e  create --format '%f' "${d}" | while read FILENAME
    do

    IFS='-' read -r -a action <<< $FILENAME
    if  [ ${action[0]} = "dothing" ]

    then 

            rsync -r -v /var/www/site1.com/sub/ /var/www/site2.com/sub/

    fi 
done

This does not work (involves interaction with another server). It executes once even if 2 or more files are created

d="path/dir/path/"
inotifywait -m  -e  create --format '%f' "${d}" | while read FILENAME
do

IFS='-' read -r -a action <<< $FILENAME
if  [ ${action[0]} = "dothing" ]

then 

        ssh root@server2ip   "rsync -r -v root@server1ip:/var/www/site1.com/sub/ /var/www/site2.com/sub/"

fi 



done
yazzou
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1 Answers1

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I have added 0<&- at the end of my command and it works

d="path/dir/path/"
inotifywait -m  -e  create --format '%f' "${d}" | while read FILENAME
do

IFS='-' read -r -a action &lt;&lt;&lt; $FILENAME
if  [ ${action[0]} = &quot;dothing&quot; ]

then 

        ssh root@server2ip   &quot;rsync -r -v root@server1ip:/var/www/site1.com/sub/ /var/www/site2.com/sub/&quot; 0&lt;&amp;-

fi

done

yazzou
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