From 55299d03ef16b85b5a0f6fc6618a257ff0b4a138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Devlin <chris@oass.site>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:34:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Upload New File

---
 inotprint.sh | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 inotprint.sh

diff --git a/inotprint.sh b/inotprint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..332e675
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inotprint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "starting in " $PWD
+
+pfile="WLSDFKJN.DRY"       #if this file exists remove it
+if [ -f $pfile ] ; then
+	rm $pfile
+fi
+
+#inotifywait will check to see when our .DRY file is closed from being written to and then print it. Will print any time the file is "modified."
+inotifywait -m -e close_write $PWD |  
+	while read path action file; do
+		if [[ "$file" =~ "WLSDFKJN.DRY" ]]; then
+			# lp prints from the command line
+			# install cups-pdf to keep copies in pdf form of all receipts if you want them
+			# lp prints to the default printer, you can change this by using -d 
+			# from the command line, so to print to the CUPS PDF printer, you can
+			# lp -d PDF WLSDFKJN.DRY;
+			# to show all printers, type: lpstat -p -d from the command line
+		lp -d PDF WLSDFKJN.DRY;
+			if [ $? -eq 0 ]
+			then
+				echo "printed"
+				rm WLSDFKJN.DRY
+			else 
+				echo "nope!"
+			fi
+		fi
+	done
+
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