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Handling timeout in scripts.
Name: Smita K Date: June 6, 2006 at 01:12:06 Pacific OS: HPUX CPU/Ram: N/A Product: N/A
Comment:
Hi All, I am writing a script where i am required to check for an existence of a file which gets generated after some time is elapsed as a kind of notification. However i do not want to keep waiting infintely to check if this file has been touched or no.i want to keep polling for it every 20 seconds till a max time of 2 minutes. IF it has not arrived even by the end of 2 minutes, then i want to tell the user that its timedout. Any suggestions how i can implement this ?
Name: nails Date: June 6, 2006 at 09:14:50 Pacific
Reply:
Set up a while loop, and check if the file exists. If it does, break out the loop. If it doesn't sleep 20 seconds and perform the check again. After cycling thru the loop 6 times break out of the loop.
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