[GTALUG] Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2017-02-19 05:10 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> 
>     If all you need is a count, maybe you could tee the scanner output
>     and drop one copy in the bit bucket.

Maybe I should have explained better: the scanner only scans to this
CIFS share. I can't do ps or tee as my computer has no control over the
scanner: all I see is a filesystem on another machine, or - if I'm in
process of scanning - no filesystem.

cheers,
 Stewart