Hi Monks;

The following code works well for single file, what i want it to do is monitor the mtime of a file, if it has been modified, copy it to a new directory immediately as an automatic backup procedure.

 
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Monitor;
use File::Monitor::Object;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw(fcopy rcopy dircopy fmove rmove dirmove);

my $wFile="1.doc";
my $wFileMonitor = File::Monitor->new();
$wFileMonitor->watch($wFile);
$wFileMonitor->scan;

while (1){
  my @changes = $wFileMonitor->scan;

  foreach my $object (@changes) {
    my $modified = $object->mtime;
      print "$wFile changed\n";
      fcopy ("$wFile","c:\\newpath"); # automatic backup if the file h
+as been modified
}
}

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But i have many files for which to be monitored, i want to give it a file list or array like the following codes:

 
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Monitor;
use File::Monitor::Object;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw(fcopy rcopy dircopy fmove rmove dirmove);

my @Files=("1.doc","2.doc","3.xls"); 

my $wFileMonitor = File::Monitor->new();
foreach my $wFile (@Files){

$wFileMonitor->watch($wFile);
#-- First scan does nothing
$wFileMonitor->scan;

while (1){
  my @changes = $wFileMonitor->scan;
  foreach my $object (@changes) {
    my $modified = $object->mtime;
      print "$wFile changed\n";
      fcopy ("$wFile","c:\\newpath");
  }
}
}

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What the codes output is just monitor the first file in the file array or list, when i did some modifies to the other file in the list there was no monitor response. But i want they were monitored simultaneously. Can you give me some advices! Any help will be appreciated!

In reply to File::Monitor problem with batch files by xbmy

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