[ale] polling directories

[glass+keyword+ale.5fd0ec at holos.com (Frank Glass)]

It's fairly trivial to do this using "fam" , the file access monitor. There is
also a perl module SGI::FAM.

Frank Glass
Holos Software, Inc.

Quoting John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>:

> I'd like to watch a few specific directories on a Linux system for new
> files.  Each time a user copies a file into the directory, I'd like to
> specify a script that will run, using that file as its argument.
> 
> I can write this myself, but I wonder if someone hasn't already invented
> this wheel?  Is anything approaching a standard way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
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