Thank you for the reply foobie. Are you suggesting something like the following, where I ls, copy the each file to the new appended filename, process each appended file, then move like this? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use File::Copy;

$path = "/mnt/ldmdata/";
@site_array = ("karx", "kdlh", "kfsd", "kmpx", "kmvx", "kwbc");
$poll_time = 20;    # sec between polls of all specified directories

for (;;)
{
    foreach $site (@site_array)
    {
        $file_dir = $path . $site;
        $archive_dir = $file_dir . "/archive";
        mkdir "$archive_dir", 0755 unless -d "$archive_dir";

        opendir(FILE, $file_dir) || die "Cannot open $file_dir";
        @files = readdir(FILE);
        closedir(FILE);

        if(@files)
        {
            foreach $file (@files)
            {
                copy($file_dir . $file, $file_dir . $file . ".complete
+");
                pqinsert $file_dir . $file . ".complete";
                move($file_dir . $file . ".complete", $archive_dir . $
+file . ".complete");
                unlink($file_dir . $file);
            }
        }
    }

    sleep $poll_time;
}

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In reply to Re^4: Continuously polling multiple directories for file transfer? by pktrain
in thread Continuously polling multiple directories for file transfer? by pktrain

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