On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:46:00AM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > Does anyone here have any ideas, or has already implemented, on how to > save something from a text editor to multiple locations > simultaneously? (Please) I feel you need to think outside of the editor. That way you're also not forced to switch your productive working environment.
Tools such as incron [1] permit automatic actions when some file is
changed. If you combined that with version control, you can have it
commit & optionally push on every change. The action MUST be smart about
the file having not changed since it was last saved.
In this case, run a script, using this incrontab configuration (this
should be a single line, in case your mail clients break it):
```
/home/user/ledger/ IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_MOVED_TO,dotdirs=false,recursive=true
/home/user/bin/commit-ledger $@/$#
```
Every time a file under /home/user/ledger/ is written or a file is moved
into that same directory, the script will be called, with the full path
to that file as an argument. It won't fire on any files added under
dot-prefixes directories like /home/user/ledger/.git/
Example content for /home/user/bin/commit-ledger, untested:
```
#!/bin/bash
# Assumption: /home/user/ledger/ is a git repo that is initialized
cd /home/user/ledger/
pwd=$(pwd)
abspath=$1
# Remove the leading path
relpath=${abspath#${pwd}}
# Explicitly check if changed:
# git-status will generate output if the file is changed
# 'grep -sq .' will have exit code 1 if NO output is present.
git status --porcelain "${relpath}" |grep -sq . || exit 0
# Commit it:
git commit -q -m "Automated commit: $relpath" "${relpath}"
# Optional:
#git push ...
```
I personally wouldn't push on every commit, but instead have a cronjob
that tries to push to multiple locations (local directory on alternate
media, other servers) every 5 minutes. If there are no changes between
the remote side and the local side, it won't do anything.
[1] https://github.com/ar-/incron
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