Re: [PLUG] shell newbie has question

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like you want a cron job that runs like once a
minute, checks the directory for a file with
appropriate properties to see if it's new, then send
it off to be processed. Im sorta novice too so you
might want to waite for a couple more responses :-)

Cheers.  - JP

--- Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com> wrote:
> At least I think it's the shell.
> 
> What I want to do is create a "magic" directory,
> such that when a
> document gets put into it, that document is
> processed in a certain way
> by an application.
> 
> It sounds to me like what I want is a "listener"
> that lives in the
> background, detects when a "new" file (or alias to a
> file) is added to
> the directory, sends the file (or aliased file) off
> to the processor,
> and then marks the file or alias in such a way that
> it is no longer
> percieved as new.
> 
> Is there a name for what I want to do, and can
> someone point me to some
> sample code that shows how to do it? (The kind of
> code where, since I
> am a newbie, there's little danger of erasing my
> hard disk or some
> such...)
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> S.
> 
> 
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