On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Anthony Griffiths wrote:

so how would I get around the problem of the stream randomly crashing
because the file can't update fast enough? Is this a case of me simply
not having a fast enough machine?


You already got the answer, instead of copying to the file, overwrite it with the mv command. The file replacement should be atomic on a local filesystem.

Regards,
Marton


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote:
Le nonidi 9 pluviôse, an CCXXIII, Simon Thelen a écrit :
As long as you're not working with a network filesystem, you can
atomically update a symlink with `mv -Tf <new> <current>'

It works with plain files, no need to bother with symlinks.

And -T and -f seems unnecessary in this context.

Regards,

--
  Nicolas George

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