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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ensure file copy is complete before starting process Post 302476664 by sandholm on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 08:05:39 AM
Old 12-02-2010
If your hosting system (where the webserver is running) is Linux, I would suggest looking at the use of inotify. A companion tool, incron, can then be used to setup a condition of when a file is "closed-from-write", a trigger is generated that can run a script. Alternatively, you can use a php program (on the server side to handle file upload), that would either move or rename the file, then have your cron job filter the received files.

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Here is a link that discusses the use of inotify:
https://sites.google.com/site/tfsidc...tem-monitoring
 

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LEARN ABOUT X11R4

inotify_rm_watch

INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)					     Linux Programmer's Manual					       INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)

NAME

       inotify_rm_watch - remove an existing watch from an inotify instance

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/inotify.h>

       int inotify_rm_watch(int fd, int wd);

DESCRIPTION

       inotify_rm_watch()  removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor wd from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
       fd.

       Removing a watch causes an IN_IGNORED event to be generated for this watch descriptor.  (See inotify(7).)

RETURN VALUE

       On success, inotify_rm_watch() returns zero.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS

       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

       EINVAL The watch descriptor wd is not valid; or fd is not an inotify file descriptor.

VERSIONS

       Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.

CONFORMING TO

       This system call is Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO

       inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_init(2), inotify(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2017-09-15						       INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)
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