Re: Writing files with formatted name

["Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> would writing synchronized java class using the same algorithm solve the race
> problem?

Java is a bit overkill for that :-)

Atomic locking is available in the shell too - man flock ...

> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Roman Gelfand <rgelfand2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I need to write files with name format {5 digit sequential number}.
>     {extension I will supply}.
> 
>     Is there a utility which would allow me to copy/move/put a file with the
>     above name format incrementing the sequence for each subsequent file. 
>     Something similar to what logrotate is doing.
> 
>     Tlhanks in advance
> 
> 

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Karl E. Jorgensen