Monitor Shell Copy File Progress
Work working on an in-house file manager - RCS for Indesign (since Adobe did an end of life for Version Cue) It's coming along well, in fact really well. One challenge is that I'm using lots of these: put (mv quote gLocalFilePath quote quote (gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote) into tShell get shell (tShell) put (cp quote (gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote quote (gServerProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote) into tShell get shell (tShell) to more files around and rename them... it works great. Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this? The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely copied to the local hard drive before doing: launch (gLocalProjectPath / pFileName) with the uInDesignPath of this stack Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately launch inDesign, which crokes because the file is incomplete on the local hard drive. Now I have some ideas about how to do this: get the checksum some of the remote file, do a send in 30 ticks (repeatedly) test of the local file until the local file's checksum matches the remote file and then launch it. But before I go after this, I was wondering if anyone had any other method? Most cool would be a progress bar, but I'm not sure RunRev can monitor a local unix copy file processor, if it can, how to do it. Thanks! Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Monitor Shell Copy File Progress
First thought : I thought (according to Dictionary) that shell would
wait until the command was complete before returning - dictionary says
The current handler pauses until the shell returns its result. If the
command was successful but did not return anything, the shell function
returns empty.
Second try : why take a checksum, why not just use the file size ?
Getting the checksum may involve copying the file from the remote server
into your laptop to calculate the checksum.
Third try : instead of doing shell 'cp file ' could you do
load url (file: tRemotepathname)
check the cachedURLs
put url(file: tRemotepathname) into url('file: tLocalfilename)
-- Alex.
On 22/05/2010 23:35, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Work working on an in-house file manager - RCS for Indesign (since
Adobe did an end of life for Version Cue)
It's coming along well, in fact really well.
One challenge is that I'm using lots of these:
put (mv quote gLocalFilePath quote quote
(gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote) into tShell
get shell (tShell)
put (cp quote (gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName)
quote quote (gServerProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote)
into tShell
get shell (tShell)
to more files around and rename them... it works great.
Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this?
The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my
Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely
copied to the local hard drive before doing:
launch (gLocalProjectPath / pFileName) with the
uInDesignPath of this stack
Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately
launch inDesign, which crokes because the file is incomplete on the
local hard drive.
Now I have some ideas about how to do this: get the checksum some of
the remote file, do a send in 30 ticks (repeatedly) test of the local
file until the local file's checksum matches the remote file and then
launch it.
But before I go after this, I was wondering if anyone had any other
method? Most cool would be a progress bar, but I'm not sure RunRev
can monitor a local unix copy file processor, if it can, how to do
it.
Thanks!
Sivakatirswami
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Re: Monitor Shell Copy File Progress
Aloha, Alex:
Nalla Cintanai (Tamil for good thoughts also the name of a famous book
in our tradition)
Hmmm, I will have to test that wait for shell completion. I'm not
seeing that behavior at the moment, it sure seems like the next line
runs immediately.
I'll throw in an a put statement dialog immediately and watch.
I think libURL uses the HTTP protocol. I'm thinking AFP will be faster
and better
Yes, Filesize, Oh, right... checksum is the wrong thing. I meant to
parse the detailed files and use that.
On 5/22/10 2:26 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
First thought : I thought (according to Dictionary) that shell would
wait until the command was complete before returning - dictionary says
The current handler pauses until the shell returns its result. If the
command was successful but did not return anything, the shell
function returns empty.
Second try : why take a checksum, why not just use the file size ?
Getting the checksum may involve copying the file from the remote
server into your laptop to calculate the checksum.
Third try : instead of doing shell 'cp file ' could you do
load url (file: tRemotepathname)
check the cachedURLs
put url(file: tRemotepathname) into url('file: tLocalfilename)
-- Alex.
On 22/05/2010 23:35, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I'm using lots of these:
put (cp quote (gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName)
quote quote (gServerProjectPath / tShortFileName)
quote) into tShell
get shell (tShell)
to more files around
Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this?
The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my
Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely
copied to the local hard drive before doing:
launch (gLocalProjectPath / pFileName) with the
uInDesignPath of this stack
Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately
launch inDesign, which crokes because the file is incomplete on the
local hard drive.
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Re: Monitor Shell Copy File Progress
I bet you could use cURL for this, using the FILE protocol. Build your
curl command line with filenames formatted for curl; open it as a
process for read; read that process's output every 500 msecs or so to
get the progress info.
I'm on assignment in NZ right now so I don't have everything at my
fingertips. Josh Mellicker made me aware of curl a few months ago, and
Ken Ray may have made a rev library of it by now. ;-) Also Mark Smith
created a rev curl lib some time ago.
Food for thought...
Phil Davis
On 23/05/10 12:26 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
First thought : I thought (according to Dictionary) that shell would
wait until the command was complete before returning - dictionary says
The current handler pauses until the shell returns its result. If the
command was successful but did not return anything, the shell
function returns empty.
Second try : why take a checksum, why not just use the file size ?
Getting the checksum may involve copying the file from the remote
server into your laptop to calculate the checksum.
Third try : instead of doing shell 'cp file ' could you do
load url (file: tRemotepathname)
check the cachedURLs
put url(file: tRemotepathname) into url('file: tLocalfilename)
-- Alex.
On 22/05/2010 23:35, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Work working on an in-house file manager - RCS for Indesign (since
Adobe did an end of life for Version Cue)
It's coming along well, in fact really well.
One challenge is that I'm using lots of these:
put (mv quote gLocalFilePath quote quote
(gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName) quote) into tShell
get shell (tShell)
put (cp quote (gLocalProjectPath / tShortFileName)
quote quote (gServerProjectPath / tShortFileName)
quote) into tShell
get shell (tShell)
to more files around and rename them... it works great.
Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this?
The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my
Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely
copied to the local hard drive before doing:
launch (gLocalProjectPath / pFileName) with the
uInDesignPath of this stack
Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately
launch inDesign, which crokes because the file is incomplete on the
local hard drive.
Now I have some ideas about how to do this: get the checksum some of
the remote file, do a send in 30 ticks (repeatedly) test of the local
file until the local file's checksum matches the remote file and then
launch it.
But before I go after this, I was wondering if anyone had any other
method? Most cool would be a progress bar, but I'm not sure RunRev
can monitor a local unix copy file processor, if it can, how to
do it.
Thanks!
Sivakatirswami
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