#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Monitor;
use File::Basename;
use Time::HiRes qw {usleep};

my $pid,@pids;


sub textfile_notifier {
my ($watch_name, $event, $change) = @_;

my @new_file_paths = $change->files_created; #The change object has a property called files_created,
                                             #which contains the names of any new files
for my $path (@new_file_paths) {
    my ($base, $fname, $ext) = fileparse($path, '.log'); # $ext is "" if the '.txt' extension is
                                                         # not found, otherwise it's '.txt'.
    if ($ext eq '.log') {
        print "$path was createdn";
    #-----------------------------------------Forking part #-----------------------------------------
    defined ($pid = fork()) or die "Couldn't fork: $!";
    if ($pid == 0) { #then in child process
        print "Loop got executedn";
    }
    else {  #then in parent process, where $pid is the pid of the child
        push @pids, $pid;
    }
    #-----------------------------------------Forking part ends here #-----------------------------------------
    }
}
}

my $monitor = File::Monitor->new();

$monitor->watch( {
name        => '/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/',
recurse     => 1,
callback    => {files_created => &textfile_notifier},  #event => handler 1
} );

$monitor->scan;
while (1) {
$monitor->scan; #Scanning the directory one
#sleep(2);
#usleep(10_000); #$microseconds = 750_000;
for my $pid (@pids) {
    waitpid($pid, 0)  #0 => block
}
}

touch 1.log
touch 2.log
touch 3.log
touch 4.log

/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/1.log was created
 /home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/2.log was created
 /home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/2.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/3.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/3.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/3.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/3.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created
/home/goudarsh/Desktop/logs/4.log was created