Process last created directory

[learingperl01]

Hello everyone,

Hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I am trying to write a script that will process files on the newest/latest created directory. I have a script that will process a directory based on an argument that is passed against. Since a new directory is created every so often I thought the best way to go about this would be to have the script run against the last directory that was created. I am not sure what the best way would be to go about this is? One way that I was thinking of doing it was by running a system command of "ls -tr $DIR_PATH |tail -n 1" but I know there is a a better way to do this. What is the best way to monitor a directory for new directories being created?

Just as an example: I would be monitoring the /user01/mon_dir directory once I see a new directory is created within mon_dir I would like to process that directory.

thanks for the help.

 

[travs69]

why not just keep a list of directories that have been processed and compare that to the actual directory? Look at the opendir and readdir commands.

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