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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Continuous Copying from a directory to another. Post 303006751 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 7th of November 2017 10:15:07 AM
Old 11-07-2017
Would iWatch be a possible help here? I think you can defined directories to watch and can take action when a file is updated.

The question is also 'What removes the files?' You may still miss files if you don't get to them before the delete happens. How much slack are we thinking? If this is (and I'm just guessing) an FTP server that people deliver to and there is another server that polls it to collect and remove files then there will be a race to get to the file, which is never a good position to be in.

Perhaps your process could be adjusted so that there is an in-bound directory for clients to create files and an out-bound for something to poll and remove the files (presumably after reading them) If you can separate these and have your code do the move after it has done the action you want, this might give you a working solution.

How time critical is the movement of files? If you are trading shares or processing payments then maybe your process could copy the file to the out-bound directory and clean up the in-bound file when it has done what extra you need.


Can you elaborate on what is going on?



Thanks, in advance,
Robin
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