Monitor Shell Copy File Progress

[Alex Tweedly]

First thought : I thought (according to Dictionary) that "shell" would 
wait until the command was complete before returning - dictionary says
> The current handler pauses until the shell returns its result. If the 
> command was successful but did not return anything, the shell function 
> returns empty.
Second try :   why take a checksum, why not just use the file size ?  
Getting the checksum may involve copying the file from the remote server 
into your laptop to calculate the checksum.

Third try : instead of doing "shell 'cp file ....' "  could you do
    load url ("file:" & tRemotepathname)
    ....   check the cachedURLs ....
    put url("file:" & tRemotepathname) into url('file:" & tLocalfilename)

-- Alex.

On 22/05/2010 23:35, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> Work working on an in-house file manager - RCS for Indesign (since 
> Adobe did an "end of life" for Version Cue)
>
> It's coming along well, in fact really well.
>
> One challenge is that I'm using  lots of these:
>
>   put ("mv " & quote & gLocalFilePath & quote &" "& quote & 
> (gLocalProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & quote) into tShell
>    get shell (tShell)
>
>    put ("cp " & quote & (gLocalProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & 
> quote &" "& quote & (gServerProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & quote) 
> into tShell
>    get shell (tShell)
>
> to more files around and rename them... it works great.
>
> Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this?
>
> The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my 
> Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely 
> copied to the local hard drive before doing:
>
>      launch (gLocalProjectPath &"/" & pFileName) with the 
> uInDesignPath of this stack
>
> Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately 
> launch inDesign, which "crokes" because the file is incomplete on the 
> local hard drive.
>
> Now I have some ideas about how to do this: get the checksum some of 
> the remote file, do a send in 30 ticks (repeatedly) test of the local 
> file until the local file's checksum matches the remote file and then 
> launch it.
>
> But before I go after this, I was wondering if anyone had any other 
> method?  Most "cool" would be a progress bar, but I'm not sure RunRev 
> can monitor a local unix copy file process....or, if it can, how to do 
> it.
>
> Thanks!
> Sivakatirswami
>
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