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detecting -addition, deletion or change to files

Hiya

I just woundering how would I go about detecting addition, deletion or
change to files in a folder?

Ideally id like to look at a linux directory and say watch all its
contents and then have my script flag up a message when one of these
events occurs

not only would it want to watch the directory, but also the
subdirectorys off of it

cheers

greg
Jul 18 '05 #1
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jeff wrote:
Hiya

I just woundering how would I go about detecting addition, deletion or
change to files in a folder? [...]


FAM is designed for this purpose. Here's the Python wrapper for it:

http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/

-- Gerhard

Jul 18 '05 #2

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