[Gllug] Checking if a file has finished being written?

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 27 Jan Andy Young wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can tell me a way to check in a shell script if a file
> has finished being written?
> 
> I want to automatically transcode from one type of video to another, but
> there is a likely chance of hitting a file mid write if I just do this on a
> timed basis.
> 
> I unfortunately have no control over the source application setting some
> sort of flag file to show the write is complete.

It's a bit of a kludge, but you could use fuser to see if a process
still has the file open.  This could potentially introduce race
conditions though, so be careful.

Cheers,

Doug.

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