Hi Monks,
what is one of the best ways in perl to monitor a directory for incoming files?
My first idea was:
while (true) {
opendir (DIR, "/my/dir") or die "Cannot open /my/dir: $!\n";
my @Dircontent = readdir DIR;
close DIR;
my $items_in_dir = @Dircontent;
if ($items_in_dir > 2) { # > 2 because of "." and ".."
do_something_now(); # takes file(s) and moves them
}
else {sleep 100;}
}
I am shure there must be a better idea somewhere out there...
Thank you in advance!!
Georg -> perlmonk.23142@viot.de
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