Hi folks, Does anybody know how to list a directory in real time. (sort of what tail -f would do for a file), I need to be able to constantly poll a directory every 100miliseconds or so to see if a new file appears. if it does i need to exec certain function on them , For simplicity here, you can just assume i want to rename a file if it is created in a directory - in realtime. The dir needs to be polled for any new file created every 100ms. until stopped manually by hitting cntrl-C or similar. Any advice will be very appreictaed

I'd have to think about it, but you could set up a while loop that sends ls -1t output to a file, execute another ls -l1 and compare that with the previous loop. If they are different then execute your function. I think that getting 100ms granularity is going to be tough using Linux scripting tools.

watch ls -al /directory cheers Wollie