I found the CLI program lockfile. Going to see if that will work for me. I was reading the documentation on CentOS and found that flock is not a POSIX standard but lockf is. From there I found the lockfile program. I was positive that I had looked for programs that started with the work lock before.
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:57 -0600, Roy Souther wrote: > Is there anyway to do file locking in a bash script? I need to remove > the race hazard from a script that has multiple running instances per > user, each trying to make changes to a text file. I need to get > exclusive access to a file and make the other instances wait their > turn. > > Any ideas? Flock is supported by more advances script engines like > Perl but flock seems to be beyond the ability of a simple shell like > bash. > > Royce Souther > www.SiliconTao.com > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying Royce Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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