How to check if files are still created?-CodePudding

I would like to make a script to check whether or not files are still being created inside a folder. We can consider for our problem that there are no more files being created if let's say for 5 sec the list of files present in that folder remains unchanged. Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thank you

CodePudding user response：

You can use inotifywait to watch for events on a file or a directory.

inotifywait -m -e create /path/to/your/dir

It will show you the events and exits if no more event happens after 5 seconds.

inotifywait --timeout 5 -qm -e create /path/to/your/dir

By default it will use 5 seconds but you can change it by putting --timeout after the command.

Please upvote if it helps!

CodePudding user response：

By created I'm assuming you mean existing, anyway to do that:

import os
entries = os.listdir('my_directory/')

then check length of entries with len(entries)