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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dsh command - shell script - sys args? Post 302905755 by Corona688 on Friday 13th of June 2014 02:38:34 PM
Old 06-13-2014
My apologies. I was having flashbacks to a thread dealing with ten million files in one directory; the OP refused to believe his disk couldn't be multithreaded via some magic perl or python code... Smilie Now that that's out of the way!

Do all three machines share the same disk? If not, dsh won't be useful here!

1) Your loops are overcomplicated. Instead of
Code:
ARR=( whatever ) ; for i in `seq ...`

do
Code:
for FILE in whatever/*
do
        ...
done

2) for FILE in whatever/*, or shell globbing in general, will fail with 'too many arguments' when there are large numbers of files. Better to use a utility like ls or find and print to a pipe when you dont' know how many files there are.

3) Don't have your sub-programs check which files are "theirs" -- tell them which files are theirs. Feed them into the program so they don't have to guess. This avoids problems with them getting out of sync (if the folder has a file added to the dir before one runs and after another runs, for example).

Code:
#!/bin/bash

NODES=3
N=0

# If there are thousands of files, '*.R' will fail in the shell with 'too many arguments'.
# So we use find instead, which prints to a pipe, avoiding using
# arguments at all.
find /home/ts/test2/temp/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.R' | while read FILE
do
        echo "file $FILE goes to node $N"
        echo "$FILE" >> /tmp/$$-$N
        let N=(N+1)%3
done

for ((N=0; N<NODES; N++))
do
        # I am assuming dsh can read from standard input here.
        # If this is wrong, that wont' work :(
        /sw/egs/bin/dsh -w node0${N} -e "/home/ts/scripts/copy.sh" < /tmp/$$-$N &
        rm /tmp/$$-$N
done

wait

Code:
#!/bin/bash

ODIR="/home/ts/test3/

while read FILE
do
        echo "Got file $FILE"
        echo cp "$FILE" "$ODIR"
done

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SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)

NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL] DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file. Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect. OPTIONS
-check Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default. -add Adds the surfraw config code. -remove Removes the surfraw config code -sys Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root. -shell=SHELL Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable. Currently supported shells are: sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es. -all Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells -help Gives a usage message RETURN VALUE
-check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error. All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error. ENVIRONMENT
SHELL Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given. HOME Used to find users config files. ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file. ZDOTDIR Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME. SEE ALSO
surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1) AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)
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