I am trying to monitor a capture directory for new files. Then copy only these new files to another directory 2. I currently have this bit of code which works fantastic other than I need it to ignore files that have already been copied from directory 1. Files on directory 2 will be immediately processed and deleted.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::stat;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $dirname = "R:";
my $dirname2 = "M:";
my $filterstring = "\\.mpg\$";
my $sleep   = 5;             # how long to sleep for

while (1) {
    opendir ( DIR, $dirname ) || die "Error in opening dir $dirname\n"
+;
foreach my $filename (readdir(DIR)) {
    next if not $filename =~ m/$filterstring/;

    my $old_file = $dirname . $filename;
    my $new_file = $dirname2 . $filename;

    print "Copying $old_file to $new_file\n";
    copy($old_file, $new_file);
}
closedir(DIR);
  sleep $sleep;
1;
}

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In reply to Monitor directory for new files and copy only new files to another directory by JasonVoorheez

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