What would be an efficient and proper way to implement a shell script
to monitor/watch a directory and process/move/copy files added to
it?? I made one having a "while (1)" loop but that takes a lot of
CPU power! Any other idea??

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:22:46 -0500, AB PP staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
You can use fam to do this (man 3x fam) but that would require writing a
C program. There's always the option of polling the directory for
changes every N seconds instead of polling it continuously; use sleep
kind of like so:

while true ; do
POLL_DIRECTORY_FOR_CHANGES
sleep 5
done

....adjust the sleep interval to taste. If you need subsecond resolution
on the polling, I think you're going to have to write something other
than a shell script. HTH,

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