On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> This approach assumes the time spend doing the copying is negligible
> (because it waits 20 seconds from the *end* of a copy to the *beginning* of
> the next copy). Copying speed depends on the size of the file, system load,
> speed of the filesystem hardware, etc. -- way too many variables to make
> that assumption. Richard's similar script, which I saw after this one, has
> the same limitation.
>
if you want to be sure :
while true
do
if [ -d /tmp/$$.lck ]
then
echo "still copying"
else
(mkdir /tmp/$$.lck ; cp $1 $2 ;rmdir /tmp/$$.lck) &
fi
sleep 20
done
That should be more or less reliable, even for large copies (it might
skipp a copy if the previous one is not done.
Frank
> Also, you want an infinite loop, not 2000 repetitions ... as illustrated in
> Richard's suggestion.
>
> At 09:40 AM 12/21/99 -0500, Paul Lee wrote:
> >maybe writing simple shell like this?
> >
> >set i = 0
> >while ($i < 2000)
> >cp $1 > $2
> >sleep 20
> >@ i++
> >end
>
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