Obtaining the Parent folder of a file/folder

[trouspinette]

Hi All@Noodlesoft Forum,

I'm wondering if Hazel is capable of doing a such job :

- Monitor a Folder (Yes, Hazel can does this !)
- When an incoming Folder appears (containing files and/or folders),
- Launch an action to change ower/group for files/folders,
- And also applying owner/group changes for the Parent folder.

Example :
/path/monitor/by/hazel/MONITORED_FOLDER/JOBS

When a file folder appears inside JOBS, doing a shell script like :

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/usr/sbin/chown -R User:Group /path/monitor/by/hazel/MONITORED_FOLDER/JOBS/* && /usr/sbin/chmod -R 775 /path/monitor/by/hazel/MONITORED_FOLDER/JOBS/*


I know that we can use "$1" as a variable for the file, but how Hazel can be setup to proceed as the above command ?

Last question : does Hazel also work if a file/folder is changing ?

Thanks for clues and replies

[Mr_Noodle]

You would use" $1" to match the file/folder being matched. To get the parent, you can use 'dirname'.