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File Monitoring in Perl

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bcheong

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Hi there,

Can anyone recommend a good way to have a perl program that constantly monitors for the creation of new files on UNIX and launches another process?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Ben
 
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look up
Code: 
file test operators
readdir
stat
File::Find

HTH
--Paul
 
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