On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:06 +1000, david wrote:
> while inotifywait -e close somefile ; do
> <lots of stuff>
> rm foo/*.tif
> done
>
>
> The problem is that i need to make sure that foo/*.tif have closed
> before I remove them, or strange things happen.
>
> I don't know what the names of the tif files are going to be, although I
> know they will in directory foo/
>
> Is there a way of waiting until all files in foo/ are closed?
lsof will work as long as foo/*.tif doesn't overflow your command line
length.
while inotifywait -e close somefile ; do
<stuff>
while lsof foo/*.tif > /dev/null 2>&1 ; do
sleep 1
done
done
(usual disclaimer about actually testing this first applies)
--
Pete
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