Date sent:              Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:58:35 +0530
Subject:                watch folder concept in Perl
From:                   Ganesh Babu N <nbabugan...@gmail.com>
To:                     Perl <beginners@perl.org>

> Dear All,
> 
> Can we develop application which will watch a specific folder and when
> any files comes into the folder then some action takes place in Perl.
> 
> Similar to an windows service. Is it possible in Perl.
> 
> Regards,
> Ganesh

There are several libraries for this. For Windows have a look at 
Win32::ChangeNotify and Win32::IPC.

Jenda
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