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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am in need of running an executable provided by a vendor that basically syncs files to a db. This tool can only be run against one folder at a time and it cannot have more than one instance running at a time. However, I need to run this tool against multiple folders. Each run of the... (5 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello,
Can I copy a binary file while the file is being written to by another process?
Another process (program) “P1” creates and opens (for writing) binary file “ABC” on local disk. Process P1 continuously write into ABC file every couple of seconds, adding 512-byte blocks of data. ABC file... (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
my user copy large files, and it's take 10min for file to be copied to the server (/tmp/user/ files/), if in the meantime start my scheduled script, then it will copy a part of some file to server1
my idea is to check the file size twice in a short period (1-2 seconds) of time, then compare, if... (5 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey all, I need to launch a script from within 2 other scripts that can run independently of the two parent scripts... Im having a hard time doing this, if anyone knows how please let me know.
More detail.
ScriptA (bash), ScriptB (ksh), ScriptC (bash)
ScriptA, launches ScriptB
ScirptB,... (7 Replies)
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5. IP Networking
Greetings. I have Debian lenny, and at the moment only the bare bones install, no GUI. I'm connecting via wireless to a Linksys router on a home network, and I manually configured a fixed ip etc during the install. I have not attempted to use any higher level apps such as ftp or telnet or apt yet.... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I would like to copy a file from one location to another. But that particular file is not fully loaded. I like to copy a file once it's fully loaded or complete file. How to ensure whether file is fully loaded or complete file?.
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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I have a program that checks a directory for new files. A file may be placed in the directory only via FTP from another system.
The files are long, the FTP can take several minutes to complete.
my program sences that a file has arrived but can't tell if the FTP process that sent it is... (10 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm using PERL on windows NT to try to run an extract of data. I have multiple zip files in multiple locations. I am extracting "*.t" from zip files and subsequently adding that file to one zip file so when the script is complete I should have one zip file with a whole bunch of ".t" files in it.
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9. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
Hi folks...
some process is writing a file....
as soon as the process starts the file comes there, and its growin..
now i in another script want to ftp the file. i don't know if the file is complete or not.
the process which writes the file is some other application and hence can't... (0 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
How do I start a background process and save the process id to a file on my system. For example %wait 5 & will execute and print the process id. I can't figure out how to get it to a file. I've tried: > filename 0>filename 1>filename.
Any assistance is most appreciated.
Thanks,
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