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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Better to Delete or Overwrite Post 302774271 by mrm5102 on Friday 1st of March 2013 01:28:47 PM
Old 03-01-2013
Better to Delete or Overwrite
Hello All,

I had just a question about my Bash Script I'm currently writing.

The script I have writes some text to a output file. After I write to the output file I send the file to another server to do
some stuff with it.

After the file sends in the script, I don't need the output/txt File anymore. So is it better to, after I send the file of course, delete
the file or should I just leave it and overwrite it the next time I run the script?

The script will be run automatically using cron or automatically using remote means from another server. But basically
it will be executed a couple times an hour (*maybe 2 or 3 times)...

So is it "bad" to delete the file from within the script when it has finished executing? I just didn't want the file to be appended
to somehow and then I'd get incorrect data, if ya know what I mean..?


Any thoughts would be much appreciated..!


Thanks in Advance,
Matt
 

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sieveshell

SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME

       sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts

SYNOPSIS

       sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port]

       sieveshell --help

DESCRIPTION

       sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server.	It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress.

       The following commands are recognized:

	   list list scripts on server.

	   put <filename> upload script to server.

	   get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout

	   delete <name> delete script.

	   activate <name> activate script.

	   deactivate deactivate all scripts.

OPTIONS

       -u user, --user=user
	   The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials.

       -a authname, --authname=authname
	   The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user).

       -r realm, --realm=realm
	   The realm to attempt authentication in.

       -e script, --exec=script
	   Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done.

REFERENCES

       [MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work
       in progress.

AUTHOR

       Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>.

perl v5.10.0							    2008-04-04							     SIEVESHELL(1)
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