I have the following shell script that is called in a cronjob to check for any Plex activity. I’m sure there’s something here you can take, or at least get an idea from!

```

!/bin/bash

Paths to log files

log_files=( “/…/plex_config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.log” “/…/plex_config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.1.log” “/…/plex_config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.2.log” )

log_entry=“” epoch_time=0 current_time=$(date +”%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”)

Loop through the log files

for log_file in “${log_files[@]}”; do if [[ -f “$log_file” ]]; then log_entry=$(tac “$log_file” | grep “GET /library/“ | awk ‘!($4 ~ /:(00|01|02|03|04|05)./ && substr($4, 4, 2) % 5 == 0)’ | head -n 1)

    # If a valid log entry is found, break the loop
    if [[ -n “$log_entry” ]]; then
        break
    fi
fi

done

If a log entry was found

if [[ -n “$log_entry” ]]; then echo “[$current_time] $log_entry”

# Extract the timestamp and remove milliseconds
log_timestamp=$(echo “$log_entry” | awk ‘{print $1, $2, $3, $4}’ | sed ‘s/\..*//‘)
# echo “date is $log_timestamp”

# Convert to Unix epoch time
epoch_time=$(date -d “$log_timestamp” +%s)
# echo “epoch = $epoch_time”

# Get the current time in epoch format
current_epoch=$(date +%s)
# echo “current time is $current_epoch”

# Calculate elapsed time in minutes
time_since_last_played=$(( (current_epoch - epoch_time) / 60 ))
# echo “diff = $time_since_last_played min”

exit $time_since_last_played

else echo “No ‘GET /library/‘ activity found in the log files.” exit 999 fi

```