[dundee] Noob Programming Question

[Robert Ladyman]

You might do better with logrotate (it looks like you are just changing ctr 
when the date changes)


> Hi Guys,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone here can give me some help. What I'm trying to do
> is to run curl and pipe the output to file1, then after a time t, stop curl
> and restart it piping it's output to file2 and so on to fileN, so that I
>  can use another script to process the files, something like this...
> 
> On system_startup:
>    If args[0]:
>       Ctr = args[0]
>    Else:
>       Ctr = 1
>    Start curl > /usr/home/gary/results/date_today/file + ctr
>    While true:
>       When time_up:
>          Stop curl
>          If date_today changes:
>             Ctr = 1
>          Else:
>             Ctr = ctr + 1
>          Start curl > /usr/home/gary/results/date_today/file + ctr
> 
> I also need a script to monitor this first one so that if it dies it can be
> restarted, something like...
> 
> If script_is_not_running:
>    Arg = digits_at_end_of_newest_file
>    Run script arg
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this on Ubuntu
> 8.04.3 LTS?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Gary
> http://www.garyshort.org
> http://www.twitter.com/garyshort
> 
> 
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