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Old 07-02-2008
Question Ignoring files that are currently being produced
Hi!

Letīs say I want copy dump-files to a location.
These dump-files vary between 80 and 280MB and will be produced in about 1min or less.
I have a cronjob which (not only) copies those.
So how can I find out whether a file is currently produced or not?
Because if my script works with these files the dumping process is interrupted and the file is corrupt.

Any help is appreciated.

thx
# 2  
Old 07-02-2008
You can use the find command with -mmin option to handle this.

Below one will look for files older than 1 mn.

Ex: find / -name "*" -type f -mmin +1
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Old 07-02-2008
Thanks.

that should work...
 
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