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I have a scenario where I am uploading .csv files to a specific folder, /tmp/data_upload, every day, and the old files are replaced by the new one.



I need to run a Python script once the data is uploaded. For this, I have an idea to create a cron job and monitor the changes in the file. I tried using inotify, but I am not much into the Unix domain. How can I do that?



I need to execute the script test.py once there is a date change of a file in the upload folder, for example, /tmp/data_upload.










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I have a scenario where I am uploading .csv files to a specific folder, /tmp/data_upload, every day, and the old files are replaced by the new one.



I need to run a Python script once the data is uploaded. For this, I have an idea to create a cron job and monitor the changes in the file. I tried using inotify, but I am not much into the Unix domain. How can I do that?



I need to execute the script test.py once there is a date change of a file in the upload folder, for example, /tmp/data_upload.










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I have a scenario where I am uploading .csv files to a specific folder, /tmp/data_upload, every day, and the old files are replaced by the new one.



I need to run a Python script once the data is uploaded. For this, I have an idea to create a cron job and monitor the changes in the file. I tried using inotify, but I am not much into the Unix domain. How can I do that?



I need to execute the script test.py once there is a date change of a file in the upload folder, for example, /tmp/data_upload.










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I have a scenario where I am uploading .csv files to a specific folder, /tmp/data_upload, every day, and the old files are replaced by the new one.



I need to run a Python script once the data is uploaded. For this, I have an idea to create a cron job and monitor the changes in the file. I tried using inotify, but I am not much into the Unix domain. How can I do that?



I need to execute the script test.py once there is a date change of a file in the upload folder, for example, /tmp/data_upload.







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  • Have you looked at eradman.com/entrproject , haven't tried it myself but it looks like it may be related.
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  • FYI, Python has inotify libraries available. See one of my answers here for an example: askubuntu.com/a/939392/295286
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Have you looked at eradman.com/entrproject , haven't tried it myself but it looks like it may be related.
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FYI, Python has inotify libraries available. See one of my answers here for an example: askubuntu.com/a/939392/295286
– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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FYI, Python has inotify libraries available. See one of my answers here for an example: askubuntu.com/a/939392/295286
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You might need incrond (inotify cron daemon) which will monitors changes on files and then execute scripts.



Incrond can monitor add new file, modify, delete and many more. This is an article shows what event incrond can monitor with some example.



Example for your case, you might create the file /etc/incron.d/data_upload with the contents



/tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY /path/to/test.py 





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  • Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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You could use entr to automatically run the script everytime a file changes by running ls /tmp/data_upload | entr -p script.py once at startup.



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Online man page: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/






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    My general approach would be to fiddle with the classical Unix find utility. For example, the command



    find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mtime -1 -exec /home/myname/test.py


    will find any .csv files in /tmp/upload_data that have been modified less than one day ago, and run your test.py if it finds any. Of course, if your test.py file is in some other directory, you want to update your path to it accordingly.



    If you run your cron job more often than once a day, you can use the mmin option to find to specify the maximal time since modification in minutes. For example,



    find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mmin -60 -exec /home/myname/test.py


    will search for .csv files that were modified less than 60 minutes ago -- useful if cron runs the job hourly.



    Two fair warnings are in order: First, this won't catch .csv files that you entirely deleted. You may want to check for these separately. Second, I did not have time to test any of this. Expect typos in my code that you'll have to debug by yourself.






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    • I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
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    You might need incrond (inotify cron daemon) which will monitors changes on files and then execute scripts.



    Incrond can monitor add new file, modify, delete and many more. This is an article shows what event incrond can monitor with some example.



    Example for your case, you might create the file /etc/incron.d/data_upload with the contents



    /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY /path/to/test.py 





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    • Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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      I think, It will be better to put the absolute path for your script. You can also check cron or system log if the script seems not working
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    You might need incrond (inotify cron daemon) which will monitors changes on files and then execute scripts.



    Incrond can monitor add new file, modify, delete and many more. This is an article shows what event incrond can monitor with some example.



    Example for your case, you might create the file /etc/incron.d/data_upload with the contents



    /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY /path/to/test.py 





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    • Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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    You might need incrond (inotify cron daemon) which will monitors changes on files and then execute scripts.



    Incrond can monitor add new file, modify, delete and many more. This is an article shows what event incrond can monitor with some example.



    Example for your case, you might create the file /etc/incron.d/data_upload with the contents



    /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY /path/to/test.py 





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    You might need incrond (inotify cron daemon) which will monitors changes on files and then execute scripts.



    Incrond can monitor add new file, modify, delete and many more. This is an article shows what event incrond can monitor with some example.



    Example for your case, you might create the file /etc/incron.d/data_upload with the contents



    /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY /path/to/test.py 






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    • Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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    • Can you also document what file you are referring to with your code block, people who are not familiar with the syntax of Incrond (like me) may think are referring to a command that you have to execute on the command line
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      Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
      – Gerald Schneider
      yesterday










    • Thanks for reminding me, I have added the context for the link.
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      yesterday












    • Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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      I think, It will be better to put the absolute path for your script. You can also check cron or system log if the script seems not working
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    • Can you also document what file you are referring to with your code block, people who are not familiar with the syntax of Incrond (like me) may think are referring to a command that you have to execute on the command line
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    Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
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    Thanks for reminding me, I have added the context for the link.
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    Thanks for reminding me, I have added the context for the link.
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    Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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    Thanks for the answer, just to verify the steps after installing incrontab shoudl execute incrontab -e as root then include this line /tmp/data_upload IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY test.py ? so that to check once I upload a new file it should execute the test.py file ? where should I place the test.py file ? should i need to provide absolute path for this ?
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    I think, It will be better to put the absolute path for your script. You can also check cron or system log if the script seems not working
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    Can you also document what file you are referring to with your code block, people who are not familiar with the syntax of Incrond (like me) may think are referring to a command that you have to execute on the command line
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    Can you also document what file you are referring to with your code block, people who are not familiar with the syntax of Incrond (like me) may think are referring to a command that you have to execute on the command line
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    You could use entr to automatically run the script everytime a file changes by running ls /tmp/data_upload | entr -p script.py once at startup.



    Project website: http://eradman.com/entrproject/



    Online man page: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/






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      You could use entr to automatically run the script everytime a file changes by running ls /tmp/data_upload | entr -p script.py once at startup.



      Project website: http://eradman.com/entrproject/



      Online man page: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/






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        You could use entr to automatically run the script everytime a file changes by running ls /tmp/data_upload | entr -p script.py once at startup.



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        Online man page: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/






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            My general approach would be to fiddle with the classical Unix find utility. For example, the command



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mtime -1 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will find any .csv files in /tmp/upload_data that have been modified less than one day ago, and run your test.py if it finds any. Of course, if your test.py file is in some other directory, you want to update your path to it accordingly.



            If you run your cron job more often than once a day, you can use the mmin option to find to specify the maximal time since modification in minutes. For example,



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mmin -60 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will search for .csv files that were modified less than 60 minutes ago -- useful if cron runs the job hourly.



            Two fair warnings are in order: First, this won't catch .csv files that you entirely deleted. You may want to check for these separately. Second, I did not have time to test any of this. Expect typos in my code that you'll have to debug by yourself.






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              What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
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            • I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
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            • @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
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            My general approach would be to fiddle with the classical Unix find utility. For example, the command



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mtime -1 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will find any .csv files in /tmp/upload_data that have been modified less than one day ago, and run your test.py if it finds any. Of course, if your test.py file is in some other directory, you want to update your path to it accordingly.



            If you run your cron job more often than once a day, you can use the mmin option to find to specify the maximal time since modification in minutes. For example,



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mmin -60 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will search for .csv files that were modified less than 60 minutes ago -- useful if cron runs the job hourly.



            Two fair warnings are in order: First, this won't catch .csv files that you entirely deleted. You may want to check for these separately. Second, I did not have time to test any of this. Expect typos in my code that you'll have to debug by yourself.






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              What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
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            • I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
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              11 hours ago










            • @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
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            My general approach would be to fiddle with the classical Unix find utility. For example, the command



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mtime -1 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will find any .csv files in /tmp/upload_data that have been modified less than one day ago, and run your test.py if it finds any. Of course, if your test.py file is in some other directory, you want to update your path to it accordingly.



            If you run your cron job more often than once a day, you can use the mmin option to find to specify the maximal time since modification in minutes. For example,



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mmin -60 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will search for .csv files that were modified less than 60 minutes ago -- useful if cron runs the job hourly.



            Two fair warnings are in order: First, this won't catch .csv files that you entirely deleted. You may want to check for these separately. Second, I did not have time to test any of this. Expect typos in my code that you'll have to debug by yourself.






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            My general approach would be to fiddle with the classical Unix find utility. For example, the command



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mtime -1 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will find any .csv files in /tmp/upload_data that have been modified less than one day ago, and run your test.py if it finds any. Of course, if your test.py file is in some other directory, you want to update your path to it accordingly.



            If you run your cron job more often than once a day, you can use the mmin option to find to specify the maximal time since modification in minutes. For example,



            find /tmp/upload_data/*.csv -mmin -60 -exec /home/myname/test.py


            will search for .csv files that were modified less than 60 minutes ago -- useful if cron runs the job hourly.



            Two fair warnings are in order: First, this won't catch .csv files that you entirely deleted. You may want to check for these separately. Second, I did not have time to test any of this. Expect typos in my code that you'll have to debug by yourself.







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            • 1




              What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
              – D. Ben Knoble
              14 hours ago










            • I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
              – Alex
              11 hours ago










            • @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
              – Thomas Blankenhorn
              10 hours ago
















            • 1




              What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
              – D. Ben Knoble
              14 hours ago










            • I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
              – Alex
              11 hours ago










            • @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
              – Thomas Blankenhorn
              10 hours ago










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            What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
            – D. Ben Knoble
            14 hours ago




            What is the -cmd syntax? IIRC find takes -exec cmd ;...
            – D. Ben Knoble
            14 hours ago












            I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
            – Alex
            11 hours ago




            I have tried this one before posting this question ,this is not working properly on 2nd 3rd consecutive run of cron jobs
            – Alex
            11 hours ago












            @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
            – Thomas Blankenhorn
            10 hours ago






            @D. Ben Knoble: You're right. I mixed up find-internal commands with shell commands. Fixed. Thanks for the correction!
            – Thomas Blankenhorn
            10 hours ago




















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