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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to poll for new files? Post 302357782 by necron on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 02:22:51 PM
Old 09-30-2009
I have a script on my BSD box that runs via crontab every 5 mins.
If you want I can paste the script here? It's a bash script.
 

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RESOLVEIP(1)						       MySQL Database System						      RESOLVEIP(1)

NAME
resolveip - resolve host name to IP address or vice versa SYNOPSIS
resolveip [options] {host_name|ip-addr} ... DESCRIPTION
The resolveip utility resolves host names to IP addresses and vice versa. Invoke resolveip like this: shell> resolveip [options] {host_name|ip-addr} ... resolveip supports the following options. o --help, --info, -?, -I Display a help message and exit. o --silent, -s Silent mode. Produce less output. o --version, -V Display version information and exit. COPYRIGHT
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For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/). MySQL 5.5 01/30/2014 RESOLVEIP(1)
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