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:

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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.

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Almost ready to mod.

cheers,

 Stewart

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