ipcam-ftp-tools

Sean Begley (begleysm@gmail.com)

https://steamforge.net/wiki

https://github.com/begleysm/ipcam-ftp-tools

2019-11-19

This repository contains scripts I wrote for administering an FTP server that acts as a host for uploaded images/videos from IP Cameras. These scripts should also be useful in other applications.

bin-by-date

bin-by-date will recursivly copy or move "unsorted" files from a source directory to a destination directory where it will create a structure of "date" folders and in each "date" folder will be a set of "hour" folders. Each "hour" folder will contain all of the uploaded files, with specified extensions, from that "date"/"hour". The source folder can optionally be deleted afterwards.

• first parameter $1 = path to source directory to be parsed /path/to/source/dir/
• second paramter $2 = path to destination directory for files to be put in (sorted) /path/to/destination/dir/
• third parameter $3 = comma delimited list of extensions to sort jpg,mp4
• fourth parameter $4 = mode: copy or move or move-delete
  • if set to copy then files will be copied from the source dir to the destination dir and the source dir will be left unmodified
  • if set to move then files will be moved from the source dir to the destintion dir but any other files not moved will be left unmodified
  • if set to move-delete then files will be moved from the source dir to the destination dir and then all other files in the source dir will be deleted

example usage: ./bin-by-date /path/to/input/ /path/to/output/ jpg,mp4 move-delete

del-older-than

del-older-than will delete all files older than X number of days and will delete empty folders. I use it on bin-by-date's destination directory to ensure that I only keep a weeks worth of IP Camera images/videos.

• first parameter $1 = path to directory to cleanup /path/to/dir
• second parameter $2 = number of days of content to keep 14

example usage: ./del-older-than /path/to/parent/directory/ 14

del-not-ext

del-not-ext will delete files that don't end in an extension specified when calling the script. One of my IP Cameras will, sometimes, upload garabage filenames. Another one uploads .idx files I don't care about. I can run this script to delete those files before executing other operations.

• first parameter $1 is the directory to work on /path/to/dir
• second parameter $2 is a comma delimited list of file extensions to NOT delete jpg,mp4

example usage: ./del-not-ext /path/to/directory jpg,mp4

Note that this script was made somewhat obsolete by the combination of specified extensions and the move-delete mode of bin-by-date. I've left it intact because it might be useful in its own right.