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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Mv or cp with a . (dot)? Post 303008377 by scribling on Thursday 30th of November 2017 07:39:13 PM

11-30-2017

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No, that's not the way WE do it ...

It drives me crazy when I start a new job and they say, "This is how we do ..."
I sit and watch and when they finish I usually say, "You do that every time, with every file?"
"Yes!"
"I could easily write a script that'll do all that stuff in about 5 seconds ... and it won't make mistakes."
"THIS IS THE WAY WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE IT HERE! And we want you to do it that way."
"Oh, I'll do it the same as you do but I'm not going through all that ..."

Usually, after a few days the other artists are asking me, "How do you do that so fast?"
"I wrote a script. These are computers! They're made to do repetitive tasks quickly and easily." What is wrong with you people?!

So, back to the original question, is that a dumb way to copy the file and rename it with a . prefix? If there's another way, I'd love to hear it.

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set_time_limit

SET_TIME_LIMIT(3)							 1							 SET_TIME_LIMIT(3)

set_time_limit - Limits the maximum execution time

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

	Set  the  number of seconds a script is allowed to run. If this is reached, the script returns a fatal error. The default limit is 30 sec-
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