On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:58:35 +0530, Ganesh Babu N wrote: > Can we develop application which will watch a specific folder and when > any files comes into the folder then some action takes place in Perl. > > Similar to an windows service. Is it possible in Perl. Not only possible, it's been done before and made available for reuse: http://search.cpan.org/~andya/File-Monitor-0.10/lib/File/Monitor.pm -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274Thread Previous