
On Feb 17, 2017 3:41 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: I need to watch a folder on a network share (a scanner) and see when new files are created. There are a couple of special things about this location: <snip> I was naïvely hoping for a mechanism that would report “Hey, you have a new file called $filename” but that seems to have been a pipedream. What do People Who Actually Know What They're Doing use, please? If all you need is a count, maybe you could tee the scanner output and drop one copy in the bit bucket. At the same time you grep ps's output for the process writing to /dev/null. Snarf the PID to a count file, one PID to a line. You don't get a timestamp but you do get unique ID and you can keep a running total. Russell Sent from semi-resurrected Moto XT1060 Almost ready to mod. cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk