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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check to see if a file is generating Post 302937948 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 10th of March 2015 10:23:40 PM
Old 03-10-2015
Is the file being generated byyour account - i.e., the process runs under your username.
If this is Linux, you can use the /proc filesystem to see if there exists a file descriptor open for that file. When the descriptor goes away, the file is done generating.

You can also use inotify, lsof, or fuser to see if that process has the file open. Depends on the OS.

Please identify the OS and shell you are using. Then we can give you exact help.
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inotify_rm_watch

INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)					     Linux Programmer's Manual					       INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)

NAME

       inotify_rm_watch - remove an existing watch from an inotify instance

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/inotify.h>

       int inotify_rm_watch(int fd, int wd);

DESCRIPTION

       inotify_rm_watch()  removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor wd from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
       fd.

       Removing a watch causes an IN_IGNORED event to be generated for this watch descriptor.  (See inotify(7).)

RETURN VALUE

       On success, inotify_rm_watch() returns zero.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS

       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

       EINVAL The watch descriptor wd is not valid; or fd is not an inotify file descriptor.

VERSIONS

       Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.

CONFORMING TO

       This system call is Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO

       inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_init(2), inotify(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2017-09-15						       INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)
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