Monthly Archives September 2008

Another nice little one-liner; wait until a file is there (or not there)

This is the sort of thing that’s second nature to a command-line geek, but I thought it was cool enough (in its little way) to share.
The problem: I have a process that runs on a remote server for quite a while. I wish to be alerted when it completes. As long as it’s running, it [...]