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Recent content by Laugman
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Need to mirror a directory to a remote server
You could have the shell script check the system process list for a duplicate instance of itself using something like... if [ `ps -ef | grep -c ${0}` -gt 1 ]; then echo "Previous instance of ${0} still running." exit 1 fi ...this will display the sample error message and stop the new...- Laugman
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Hash Key Disappearance
I've inherited the following perl code fragment.... 1 %Returned = dbPrepare( %Input ); 2 if ( $Returned{nStatus} == 0 ) { 3 %Input = ( nDbCursor => $Returned{nDbCursor} ); 4 %Returned = dbExecute( %Input ); 5 } 6 if ( $Returned{nStatus} == 0 ) { 7 # FINISH...
