Check current sync status from command line

[fabianostermann]

Feature description

Hi all,

I am looking for a way to determine the current state of the nextcloud client (mainly: "syncing.." vs "all synced") in a bash script.
I use that to wait for syncing to end and then automatically trigger shutdown.
Dropbox, which I used for a long time, has a python script command for that: $ dropbox status
That just returns a string, that can be captured and interpreted.

If there isn't such a functionality in the nextcloud client (and my searches indicate nothing useful), I would like to give it a try.
For my use case, it could mean to just perform a hacky lookup of some log files (I saw I can enable logging to /tmp/Nextcloud-logdir/) or anything similar.
So has anyone, who is more into the code, an idea how to cleverly approach this for now?

Also, I would suggest to consider such a utility a super enhancement for this project. If a simple approach could be found for now, I would like to look into integrating this to the project in a smoother way.

Thx in advance for any suggestions!

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The information I want to obtain seems to be stored in src/common/syncfilestatus.h

What happened to nextcloudcmd? Is src/cmd working or not? Sorry, but I cannot find up-to-date information about it. Thx!

[PhilippSchlesinger]

Similar request #6328

[fabianostermann]

Good news. I came up with a quick solution! (Linux only)

I just borrowed some code from the syncstate nautilus-extension, which connects to a socket that communicates with the nextcloud client.
With this approach, all information that the socket provides (see here for all the possible requests) can be implemented.

I mirrored the behavior of the Dropbox command-line tool that is to print Up to date or Syncing.. whenever called. I decided to do so (for now), because I used Dropbox before and can reuse all my personal scripts this way (e.g. delaying shutdown when some syncing has not yet finished).

I have made the python script available here.

[diamantopoulos12]

@fabianostermann Thanks for the script! Works great on my Rocky 9 machine.