From 16f717ae4c7feb021bfaa07041882e96a7c5c4c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bassqualle <62742131+bassqualle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:32:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added a script/function to upload local file(s) to remote
 directory utilizing RCLONE

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 functions/scannextcloud.sh | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 functions/scannextcloud.sh

diff --git a/functions/scannextcloud.sh b/functions/scannextcloud.sh
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index 0000000..f82ed3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/functions/scannextcloud.sh
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+# Info
+# In order to use this script you need to set "scannextcloud" as the FUNCTION variable in line 5 of the hotfolder.sh file
+# this script utilizes RCLONE to upload a local file to a remote dir
+# I use this script together with the holtfolder.sh script to move newly scanned documents from a network smb share to a nextcloud instance.
+# In order to achieve this robustly I had to increase the sleep times to 15 seconds in hotfolder.sh file to allow the network scanner to update an existing file when scanning multiple pages into the same file.
+# ------------------------ code ---------------------------------------------
+
+
+if hash rclone 2>/dev/null; then	#check if rclone is installed
+	echo Processing files...
+	# allow another 5 seconds before starting to process
+	sleep 5
+	
+	#inserting current date/time into the file name to make them individual
+	cdate=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H-%M")
+	for f in *; do
+		mv -- "$f" "$cdate"_"$f"
+	done
+
+	# Writing filenames in text file outside of the processing dir
+	ls >../files-from.txt
+	
+	# rclone command
+	# for a overview of available commands and their usage refer to https://rclone.org/commands/
+	# decided to use the rclone "move" command, which will already delete the moved files (doesn't require me to do garbage collection)
+	# note: works only for files / folders are not transferred. I think one has to use rclone "moveto" command in order to achieve this)
+	# rclone copy --files-from ../files-from.txt -v ./ Nextcloud:/
+	rclone move --files-from ../files-from.txt -v --delete-empty-src-dirs ./ Nextcloud:/
+	
+	# Post processing... doing the files and folder cleanup
+	mv * ../out/	# move file into the out folder
+	rm  -rf *		# delete content of processing folder
+	rm ../files-from.txt 	# delete the previously created text file holding the file names
+	
+else	# if rclone is not installed
+	echo rclone needs to installed and be accessible via standardpath >&2
+fi