Watch directory for new .docx files, convert to markdown and delete source file if successful

convert-docx-to-md.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Set the source and destination directories
SRC_DIR=/path/to/source
DST_DIR=/path/to/destination

# Create the destination directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$DST_DIR"

# Watch the source directory for new .docx files
inotifywait -m -r -e create "$SRC_DIR" |
while read -r directory events filename; do
  # Check if the new file is a .docx file
  if [[ "$filename" =~ \.docx$ ]]; then
    # Convert the .docx file to md using pandoc
    pandoc -o "$DST_DIR/${filename%.docx}.md" "$directory$filename"
    
    # Check if the md conversion was successful
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
      # Delete the source .docx file
      rm "$directory$filename"
    else
      echo "Error converting $filename to markdown"
    fi
  fi
done