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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check the file status in Linux. Post 302799201 by ptappeta on Friday 26th of April 2013 03:24:36 AM
Old 04-26-2013
Check the file status in Linux.
Hi All,

I have a simple problem .
I am pulling the file from a remote server througha simple file transfer protocal (ftp ).

But I wanted to check before pulling the file ,whether the file is being written or in use by some other process and if so i dont want to pull the file and wait for some time .

can anyone know if this is possible in Linux ?
Bith mmy siource and destination are Linux 2.6.9-89.35.1.ELhugemem .please help and here goes my ftp script ..
 

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pppoe-status

PPPOE-STATUS(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   PPPOE-STATUS(8)

NAME

       pppoe-status - Shell script to report on status of PPPoE link

SYNOPSIS

       pppoe-status [config_file]

DESCRIPTION

       pppoe-status  is  a  shell script which checks the status of the PPPoE link established by the Roaring Penguin user-space PPPoE client.	If
       you omit config_file, the default file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 is used.

AUTHOR

       pppoe-status was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.

       The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/.

SEE ALSO

       pppoe(8), pppoe-start(8), pppoe-connect(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), pppoe-setup(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-sniff(8),  pppoe-relay(8),  pppoe-
       server(8)

4th Berkeley Distribution					   16 March 2000						   PPPOE-STATUS(8)
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