in reply to Monitoring Directories for changes

If possible, use rsync for this rather than a homegrown perl thing. It will be more efficient.

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Re: Re: Monitoring Directories for changes
by belg4mit (Prior) on Dec 08, 2001 at 08:57 UTC
    Or you could always use merlyn's perl rsync ;-)

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    perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);([st])/'\$1/mg"

      Link please?
        merlyn says his will be available in an upcoming column. I also stumbled across fsync while looking for a better cvs (lemme know if you know of one).

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        perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);([st])/'\$1/mg"