Hello.

I am currently in the process of writing a tiny script to ftp files over to an NT box from one of our unix servers.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::FTP;
use Getopt::Long;



my %opt = ();
    GetOptions(
                \%opt,
                "usr=s",
                "pwd=s",
                );

    chdir("/home/export/data/");
    @files = reverse ( map {    split (/\s+/))[8];    } `ls -lrt Open_
+Trade_Summary*`);
        foreach my $file (@files[0..3]) {
            check_age($files);
            }


    sub check_age{
        my $file = shift;
        ( (if -M $file) < .5 ) {
        print "$file is current - ok to send\n";
        send_file($file);
        } else {
        print "No current data available\n";
        }

  sub send_file{
        my $file = shift;
        my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ntbox01.host.org");
            $ftp->login($opt{usr}, $opt{pwd});
            $ftp->cwd($remDir);
            $ftp->put($file);
            $ftp->exit;
            }

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This is fine. I can cron this and have it check for files whenever. But what I would really like to do is put some sort of loop in the script, that checks say, every 10 minutes, for new files. I can tell it what exact file to look for, but need some kind of "Trigger" functionality to kick off the script...Anyone have any ideas / follow me at all?

Thanks as always,

Azatoth a.k.a Captain Whiplash

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