Watching a directory for changes

[Joel Hammer]

The number of files will be small, like one or two.
Joel
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:10:43PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> How many files will ordinarily be in this directory?  If you're using a 
> shell script for this, then odds are you're going to need to be parsing 
> the output from ls, which means you're going to be dependent on the 
> number of files listed.  At some point the number of files will take at 
> least 1second, if not more just for 'ls' to output. Something to think 
> about unless we're talking about a small number of files.
> 
> On 10/24/2002 06:56 PM, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I want to have a background job watching a directory for new files
> > arriving, and then responding when they arrive.
> > The response time has to be very quick (impatient humans), maybe on the order
> > of a 1/2 second or less.
> > I could have a bash script watching the directory, but the sleep command
> > works in intervals of 1 second. Not fast enuf.
> > Any ideas appreciated,
> 
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