Is it posibl to achieve Directory watcher event

[suhasmahajan85]

Hello All,

Is it poossible to achieve directory watcher event through dos script

E.g - I have dir say A if some text file is comes in this directory the an event should get raised

like if a.txt file comes in dir A the test.batch file shoulde get run. And there is no fix time for a.txt it will come any time in dir A.

how can we achieve it through dos script.

[avery_larry]

**UNTESTED**

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@echo off
set "watchdir=c:\tmp"
set "watchfile=notify.txt"
set "eventprog=c:\mybatchfile.cmd"
::Could use wildcards like set "watchfile=*.txt"

:loop
if exist "%watchdir%\%watchfile%" start "%eventprog%" cmd /c "%eventprog%"
ping -n 2 -w 800 127.0.0.1 >nul 2>nul
goto :loop

You can add /wait after the word start if you want to wait for the other program to finish before continuing.

[suhasmahajan85]

Thank you avery_larry

I tested it , Its working fine only the thing is when I run batch file that dos window is appear can we hide it (Is it possible to run it at back end).