>> Anyways, is there a canned utility like find to do this, or am I stuck
>> with a looping find (note this is under linux)
>
> Under Linux, look at the inotify framework. If the
> inotify{watch,wait} tools don't do what you need, there's a reasonably
> rich API available to make more precise handlers.
>thanks much for the info.. BTW, it might be very nice to have inotify-like functionality available in find itself, for platforms that support it... Ed
