jmmitchell / movestough

Bash script to monitor a source directory and move any added objects to a target directory, ensuring via fail-safe handling of data.
MIT License
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Some problems with the instructions (i.e. with the README displayed on the GitHub front page) #2

Open LinuxOnTheDesktop opened 3 years ago

LinuxOnTheDesktop commented 3 years ago

'[I]f there empty directories' should be 'if there are empty directories'.

'[M]oving the files conatined' should be 'moving the files contained'.

'[T]he subdirectories of the source directory left in tact' should be 'the subdirectories of the source directory are left intact'.

'[U]nattended manor' should be 'unattended manner'.

More importantly, the instructions leave me unsure what the 'watching' of the source directory entails. Is your program in fact a file-syncing daemon? What I myself am after is, only, something that will do copy with rsync, but in such a way as to output (to the screen and/or a log file) an easily human readable list of which files were created and which were modified, with that output giving the full path of each destination item.

EDIT: I am relieved to discover that the script has a dry-run feature. However, to discover that, I had to read right to the end of the README.