Watching a directory for changes

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Joel Hammer spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> 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,

have you looked at freshmeat? there's a couple of programs for this purpose. 
dirwatch is one, IIRC. and isn't this what FAM is for?
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