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Old 09-25-2012
Removing lines from a file being used by another process using SHELL script

Hi All,

Need a small help in writing a shell script which can delete a few lines from a file which is currently being used by another process.

File gets appended using tee -a command due to which its size is getting increased.
Contents like :
Code:
[INFO] 25/09/2012 05:18 Run ID:56579677-1

My requirement is to remove lines which are more than 1 month old...
for this i will cut month from the line i.e. 09 and backtrack to fetch the previous value i.e. 8
and remove all lines from top till the row fetched...

Query is can i remove the lines in the same file ? (what if another process comes to write in that file using tee -a)..

Thanks,
Nik

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-25-2012 at 04:39 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream" - stream-based protocols using lines of text SYNOPSIS
Most likely this class will be subclassed to implement a particular network protocol. package Net::Async::HelloWorld; use strict; use warnings; use base qw( IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream ); sub on_read_line { my $self = shift; my ( $line ) = @_; if( $line =~ m/^HELLO (.*)/ ) { my $name = $1; $self->invoke_event( on_hello => $name ); } } sub send_hello { my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; $self->write_line( "HELLO $name" ); } This small example elides such details as error handling, which a real protocol implementation would be likely to contain. DESCRIPTION
EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters: on_read_line $line Invoked when a new complete line of input is received. PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": on_read_line => CODE CODE reference for the "on_read_line" event. METHODS
$lineprotocol->write_line( $text ) Writes a line of text to the transport stream. The text will have the end-of-line marker appended to it; $text should not end with it. AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)
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