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in reply to Directory Monitor

If you aren't even sure where to start at all, you probably should find an intro tutorial or two to get a better sense of the language. There's a link on the upper right that has lots of Tutorials.

After that, you can probably put something together quick with File::Find and Email::Send, and use cron (or the equivalent on whatever system you're using) to make it check regularly.