There is more than one way to skin this cat. Here is one way using the Linux inotify facility

See Linux::Inotify for details

use strict;
use warnings;
use Linux::Inotify;

my $notifier = Linux::Inotify->new();
my $watch = $notifier->add_watch('/directory/to/monitor', Linux::Inoti
+fy::CREATE);
while (1) {
        for my $event ($notifier->read()) {
                print "New file named: " . $event->fullname() . "\n";
        }
}
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Loops,

I would recommend you include a 'sleep' or 'usleep' to your 'while' loop. Otherwise you will eat up a lot of the computer!

Regards...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

No, sleep and usleep would be counter productive and just slow detection down. The whole beauty of iNotify is that the process sleeps until an event happens, and then its woken by the kernel and passed the event structure. The code as is takes next to zero system resources.

G'day venky4289,

I haven't used it (so this isn't a recommendation) but recently I saw a reference to File::Monitor which may do what you want.