doing exactly as described:
The best choice is to use special commands, if you have them. For example linux has the inotify api. The command inotifywait does exactly what you want and also does what the other have shown as example code. What OS do you have?
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Hi All,
I would like to write a script which will search a file say abc.dat in /a/b/data for 15 mins only. If the script finds the file in 15 mins then it will exit will exit sucessfully and if there is no file for 15 mins it will exit and copy the last day file (abc.dat_ddmmyyhhmmss) from... (1 Reply)
I am such a newbie. I am from a mainframe background, so this stuff is new for me to interpret. I dont know if I need a sleep or wait.
I need a loop to wait for a filea or fileb to be created before I execute further script. The driver unix script is on the solaris. The files I'm looking for... (1 Reply)
Hello
We have to monitor a FTP utility where we have to monitor for checking presence of a file in directory With max time allowed for a file to stay in the directory on FTP client server as 10 mins.
The only way we are going to be able to do what we are lookign for is to write a script to... (1 Reply)
Hello, I know this isn't exactly a Unix question, but I wasn't able to find much information elsewhere.
I'm trying to run a program in the background using Cygwin on a Windows machine, then use the wait command to pause before proceeding. Unfortunately, as I've confirmed using ps aux, the... (0 Replies)
HI All,
I have a log file where the logs will be in the format as given below:
2011-05-25 02:32:51 INFO PROCESS STARTING
2011-05-25 02:32:52 INFO PROCESS STARTED
.
.
.
I want to retrieve only the logs which are less than 5 mins older than current time using grep... (3 Replies)
I want to grep only last 5 mins of a log file in bash
I have a syslog which contains the following
Mon Jul 11 20:47:42
Mon Jul 11 20:47:52
The following works in Unix but not in AIX . Please can you let me know as to what would be the AIX equivalent
Code: for (( i = 5; i >=0;... (1 Reply)
how to compare to arrays to check if each elements of the first are the same of the second?
for ((i=0;i<$LENGTH;i++)) ; do
for (j=0;j<$LENGTH;j++)) ; do
if } == ${ARR2} ]
echo "Are the same";
fi;
done;
done;
i try this but it doesn't work :(
if i make... (0 Replies)
I have a script that runs every hour from the crontab (see the settings of the crontab below) (15 mins past the hour)
15 * * * * /home/usr/usr1/ProvAll
This script saves two files in the following format
now=`/bin/date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M%S'`
file1.$now (for example)
file1.20140722.031502... (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an issue which I'm trying to understand a way of doing, I have several nodes which contain syslog events which I want to force trigger an email initially (eventually leading to another method of alerting but to start with an email).
Basically the syslog file will have hours worth... (6 Replies)
Dears,
I am looking for a script which will work as a watch directory.
I ha directory which keep getting files in every 10 mins and some time delay.
I want to monitor if the directory getting the files in every 10 mins if not captured the last received file time and calculate the delay.
... (6 Replies)
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stream_copy_to_stream
STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3) 1 STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3)stream_copy_to_stream - Copies data from one stream to anotherSYNOPSIS
int stream_copy_to_stream (resource $source, resource $dest, [int $maxlength = -1], [int $offset])
DESCRIPTION
Makes a copy of up to $maxlength bytes of data from the current position (or from the $offset position, if specified) in $source to $dest.
If $maxlength is not specified, all remaining content in $source will be copied.
PARAMETERS
o $source
- The source stream
o $dest
- The destination stream
o $maxlength
- Maximum bytes to copy
o $offset
- The offset where to start to copy data
RETURN VALUES
Returns the total count of bytes copied.
CHANGELOG
+--------+------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+------------------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | Added the $offset parameter |
| | |
+--------+------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A stream_copy_to_stream(3) example
<?php
$src = fopen('http://www.example.com', 'r');
$dest1 = fopen('first1k.txt', 'w');
$dest2 = fopen('remainder.txt', 'w');
echo stream_copy_to_stream($src, $dest1, 1024) . " bytes copied to first1k.txt
";
echo stream_copy_to_stream($src, $dest2) . " bytes copied to remainder.txt
";
?>
SEE ALSO copy(3).
PHP Documentation Group STREAM_COPY_TO_STREAM(3)