Pass the name of watched file that changed as argument to a shell command

Question

I have a collection of .svg files. When I modify one of them, I would like grunt to re-run a command on each svg file that was modified

inkscape --file=FILENAME.svg --export-pdf=FILENAME.pdf

So far, I have this grunt script

module.exports = function (grunt) {
'use strict';
grunt.initConfig({
  shell: {
    figures: {
      command: 'inkscape --file=FILENAME.svg --export-pdf=FILENAME.pdf'
    }
  },
  watch: {
    figs: {
      files: '**/*.svg',
      tasks: ['shell:figures']
    }
  }
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');

grunt.registerTask('default', [watch']);
};

But I have no idea how to configure grunt in order to replace FILENAME by the name of each file that was modified.

Answer 1

I solved the issue using a config variable that is modified on the watch event before shell:figs runs

module.exports = function (grunt) {
  'use strict';
  // Project configuration
  grunt.initConfig({
    shell: {
      figs: {
        command: function() {
          return 'inkscape --file="' + grunt.config('shell.figs.src') + '" --export-pdf="' + grunt.config('shell.figs.src').replace('.svg', '.pdf') + '"';
        },
        src: '**/*.svg'
      }
    },
    watch: {
      svgs: {
        files: '**/*.svg',
        tasks: ['shell:figs'],
        options: {
        spawn: false,
        }
      }
    }
  });

  grunt.event.on('watch', function(action, filepath) {
    grunt.config('shell.figs.src', filepath);
  });

  // These plugins provide necessary tasks
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');

  // Default task
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['connect', 'watch']);
};

The only downside is that shell:figs cannot be called manually, it only works when running the watch task, or simply grunt.