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

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 27 Jan, Andy Young bloviated thus:

> I wonder if anyone can tell me a way to check in a shell script if a file
> has finished being written?

If the program exits after writing, you could use a lock file.

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