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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting indication of find activity - bash script Post 302441076 by Scott on Thursday 29th of July 2010 09:02:08 AM
Old 07-29-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vercsab
but the printing of dot is execute just after the find finishes its work on the whole directory set.
Why would it do that?

Perhaps it just runs too quickly for you to see.

Try putting a sleep (or usleep) in to test.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by al0x
btw @scottn: if you take a look at find's man page:

maybe thats why it doesn't print the dot directly to stdout? Sorry I could also be terribly wrong about it ^^'
Hi.

I didn't use -exec.

The dots print perfectly fine, just, as I said too quickly. But when it finds a file, it prints a dot.
 

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starpu_workers_activity

STARPU_WORKERS_ACTIVITY:(1)					   User Commands				       STARPU_WORKERS_ACTIVITY:(1)

NAME

       starpu_workers_activity: - manual page for starpu_workers_activity: 40: [: --version: unexpected operator

DESCRIPTION

       ./starpu_workers_activity:  40: [: --help: unexpected operator ./starpu_workers_activity: 40: [: --help: unexpected operator ./starpu_work-
       ers_activity: 45: [: --help: unexpected operator ./starpu_workers_activity: 45: [: --help: unexpected  operator	./starpu_workers_activity:
       45: [: --help: unexpected operator Error. File <--help> not found

       Offline tool to display the activity of the workers during the execution.

	      The  starpu_fxt_tool  utility  now  generates  a file named 'activity.data' which can be processed by this script to generate a plot
	      named activity.eps

	      Typical usage:

	      ./starpu_fxt_tool -i /tmp/prof_file_foo ./starpu_workers_activity activity.data

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      display this help and exit

       -v, --version
	      output version information and exit

       -h, --help
	      display this help and exit

       -v, --version
	      output version information and exit

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <starpu-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>

       ./starpu_workers_activity: 40:  [:  --version:  unexpected  operator  ./starpu_workers_activity:  45:  [:  --version:  unexpected  operator
       ./starpu_workers_activity: 45: [: --version: unexpected operator ./starpu_workers_activity: 45: [: --version: unexpected operator
       Error. File <--version> not found

       Offline tool to display the activity of the workers during the execution.

	      The  starpu_fxt_tool  utility  now  generates  a file named 'activity.data' which can be processed by this script to generate a plot
	      named activity.eps

	      Typical usage:

	      ./starpu_fxt_tool -i /tmp/prof_file_foo ./starpu_workers_activity activity.data

       Report bugs to <starpu-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>

starpu_workers_activity: 40: [: --version: unexpected operator	   November 2013				       STARPU_WORKERS_ACTIVITY:(1)
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