Dearest Monks,

I am trying to set up Inotify2 to watch for file creation in all sub-directories of a parent directory. I found this thread which explains the process for a single directory, code included here for convenience: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Linux::Inotify2;

$|++;

my $inotify = new Linux::Inotify2
 or die "Unable to create new inotify object: $!";

$inotify->watch("/tmp/j", IN_ACCESS | IN_CLOSE_WRITE, sub {
 my $event = shift;
 
 my $name = $event->fullname;
 
 print "$name was accessed\n" if $event->IN_ACCESS;
 print "$name is no longer mounted\n" if $event->IN_UNMOUNT;
 print "$name is gone\n" if $event->IN_IGNORED;
 print "$name is new\n" if $event->IN_CLOSE_WRITE;
 print "events for $name have been lost\n" if $event->IN_Q_OVERFLOW;
 print "jjjj\n";

 # $event->w->cancel;
}) or die "watch creation failed: $!";

1 while $inotify->poll;

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If anyone can show me how to modify this to watch multiple sub-directories, I would greatly appreciate it. I have not been able to find an example of this anywhere. Thank you kindly.

In reply to Inotify2 question: watching subdirectories by pktrain

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