Thanks for your suggestions. Fam/imon is what I had in mind but couldn't remember the acronym. HP-UX doesn't seem to have it anyway. The files will likely be uploaded via FTP. Perhaps a simple "test...
I'd like to handle incoming (uploaded) files from a shell script, ideally without busy polling / waiting (e.g. running a cron task every 15'). Is there a command that would just sleep until...