From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T04:45:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hotfolders or "watched" folders in Ruby?

Keith Fahlgren wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'd like to have a daemon process that watches for new files in a 
> specific directory and then runs a command on them once they're there. 
> It seems like a problem someone would have solved before but I haven't 
> been able to dig up anything about it on the web yet (perhaps I'm not 
> phrasing it correctly). Just thought I'd bounce a question here before 
> I started coding it myself.
> 
> Any thoughts?

There's Ara Howard's "dirwatch".  For Win32, there's win32-changejournal.

I don't know if dirwatch works on Win32.

Regards,

Dan