[Tutor] Monitoring directories

[Alan Gauld]

On 14/02/2020 01:02, Nathan D'Elboux wrote:

> As this script is invoked currently via a cron job im not familiar
> with what i would need to do to make this python script monitor in
> daemon mode or how it would know  the newest files and the fact it
> haunt already copied them over.

Store the copied filenames in a file perhaps?
Either that or just store the time of the last run in a file. Then check
the file creation date against the last run time and if newer copy the file.

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