updated title.
to more closely reflect my goal.
update..
I have my file mover built, now I want to monitor the srcdir, to make sure the other program is not hung so i installed file monitor but its giving me this error, I am not sure i am even referring to the objects correctly here and apparently I am not as I get this message..
global symbol object requires explicit package name in copy.pl line 36
global symbol object requires explicit package name in copy.pl line 39
I guess I am just dense but I don't understand the watch with callback, I am guessing that means if it changes to call some other file?
use File::Copy::Recursive;
use File::Find;
use strict;
my $srcdir='c:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\';
my $destdir='c:\\';
File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy $srcdir, $destdir or die "Copy failed:
+ $!";
use File::Monitor;
my $monitor = File::Monitor->new();
# Just watch
$monitor->watch('c:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\mlx
+\\aar\\04-16-2009.txt');
# Watch with callback
$monitor->watch('otherfile.txt', sub {
my ($name, $event, $change) = @_;
print "file has been changed";
# Do stuff;
});
# Watch a directory
$monitor->watch( {
name => 'c:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\
+mlx\\',
recurse => 1,
callback => {
files_created => sub {
my ($name, $event, $change) = @_;
print "something modified in directory mlx";
}
}
} );
# First scan just finds out about the monitored files. No changes
# will be reported.
$object->scan;
my $monitor->scan;
# Later perform a scan and gather any changes
my @changes = $object->scan;
I have a need to monitor text files as they are being updated by another application, ideally I would like to access the files shortly after the other program has written to them to check values against a threshold, as well as validate them to ensure they are in a proper format for input into a db, these checks can occur after the other program is finished with them if need be, but I would like to be able to send alerts in real time should the values for these transactions exceed the limits, in addition I would like the limits themselves to be user configurable and I would like to then copy the files into another location so my sql transaction can pick them up.