I don’t even know what to classify this as…(folder/scripting help needed)

[Osglith]

Greetings Smart People,

What I have is a situation where a user must copy a folder containing multiple other sub-folders and files onto an XSan volume. Many of these files are locked (they are created that way by a Panasonic Broadcast Video camera onto what amounts to be a large SD card). Anyway, multiple users will be copying files off these cards onto my XSan. I thought “Well I can just run a script to do a chflag command to unlock all files recursively”, but the fun doesn’t stop there. I need to chown on the folders, and do a chmod on them as well.

Now I can go into terminal and using sudo run all three of those commands, but what I need to to automate this process so that once anything in placed in this one folder it will run those three commands for me.

I was about to investigate some sort of Applescript Folder Action that would fire off a terminal script (of which I have no idea how to write a terminal script), but I figured I would ask if there was some server level equivalent to Applescript folder actions.

Any input would be appreciated.

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