I'm writing an application, the first bit of which is basically a scan of a certain directory for new files which need parsing. If any files are found they'll be send to the second bit of the app for processing.

The directory scan needs to run like so:

I can do every small piece of this, except the major one which is to create a script that never exits, even if it sleep()s for hours at a time.

Using pseudocode, I've considered the following: 

while ( currenttime is between 11PM and 6AM ) {
    scan directory every hour
    send found files to other process
}
# this will bail out if the time range is no good, 
# rather than sleeping, so that's no good

while (1) {
    same process
}
# just seems stupid although that could just be me
# wanting to overcomplicate things

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Anyway, anyone have suggestion?

In reply to sleep() but don't exit by Anonymous Monk

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