Hi monks!

I made a perl program that parses the contents of an xml file into something more readable. The xml files who's filename include a date/time-stamp are arriving to our server every 15mins where they end up in a particular directory. There, the xml files are kept for 2 days until another process deletes them automatically.

My goal is to automate the checking for new files arriving in this directory (every 15mins), copy these new files into my working dir and feed them into the parser program. Like I said, the parser program is ready, what I need now is some way to:
- read the xml directory
- check for new files and ignore the ones already processed earlier
- copy the new files into my working dir where I can feed them into the parser program

Now for the actual question:
I'm sure File::Monitor could help out with a big chunk of the job but the likelihood of the server admin allowing me to install any additional perl modules is low. So, do you know of any (easy) way to achieve this without the help of any modules or is pushing the admin to install additional modules (File::Monitor) my best option?

Thanks,

//Ben

In reply to Monitoring directory contents by bendir

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