Re: File Monitoring

[Dani Pardo]

   Hi, I've done this app. What I do is put into a file the output of 
ls -lR /directory_to_watch.
 Then use diff to compare the results. This gives the advantage that, 
if a line starts with +, then a new file has been added. If it's -,  a 
file has been deleted :)

$ ls -lR > listing1.txt
$ ls -lR > listing2.txt
$ diff listing1.txt listing2.txt > diff.txt

Of course, this works on a Un*x environment.

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