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Thanks, Franklin52, that's precisely what I had in mind, but what I was actually getting at was the safety of this technique.

I know that multiple processes writing to the same file is a recipe...

I have a sequence of tasks that I routinely run and I'm trying to parallelize certain portions of the sequence. Specifically, there are 3 tasks which all read from the same file, each performing...

radoulov: Thanks for the reply. I can tell you spent some time on that.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty new to perl and I've never used the command line option (which I think that is), so it might take...

Well, I think I figured it out. Essentially, the diamond operator just grabs the next line of input and assigns it to $_, but the diamond operator is not itself the input. I was treating it like a...

Hello:
I have the following perl script which is giving me trouble inside the second elsif statement. The purpose of the script is to go through a file and print out only those lines which contain...

Interesting. That could very well explain it.

Thanks for the input everyone else. I now have plenty of workarounds.:)

Hi,
I am simply trying to remove the header row from a file using sed, but I'm running into strange difficulties.
It seems that in addition to removing the first line, this command is also...

Thanks otheus & summer cherry.
I got it all figured out and learned something while I was at it. :)

Hmmm. I take it from your response that fgrep would have provided a much easier way to perform the task, but after looking it up I don't see how. (I found this definition: "use fgrep to find all...

Hello all,
I realized that I was actually executing the wrong script. I had two versions and was editing one but executing the other. No wonder I kept getting the same error no matter what I...

I have a file with a list of 'samples' all in one column and a second file with a list of 'results' for these samples. I am trying to use a FOR loop to go through each sample and gawk the second...