Alan, It works on linux, solaris and macos.
fuser should work on Windows/CYGWIN, No ideas what happens with Windows/MKS For Windows it might be better to use handle.exe from sysinternals - it do exactly the same and very reiliable in my experience. -Dmitry On 2013-11-19 14:58, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 19/11/2013 09:33, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: >> Jaroslav, >> >> Use fuser command to wait until file being closed is better way to do it >> >> if fuser -s filename; then Busy; else Ready; fi >> >> -Dmitry >> > Do you know if this works on all platforms? > > -Alan -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.