copy large files in Rev on Mac

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Since im going to learn some unix to manage our celerras (in red hat 
linux) i thought I'd ask our unix sysadmins...

the solution is indeed the & at the end of the command but to avoid that 
process to be killed (once the original shell is killed),
you should use "nohup <command> & "

dont know if this works in osx but it is std unix they say...

good luck :)


use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 05/12/2007 14:00:06:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> > On 5 Dec 2007, at 12:18, Klaus Major wrote:
> >
> >> revCopyFile uses Applescrip which is blocking! At least in Rev, 
> >> but NOT when
> >> using the same script with the AppleScriptEditor!? :-/
> >> Using "shell" is also blocking!
> >
> > This has come up a few times on the list, and basically revolves 
> > around using a shell command that sends it's output to a text file 
> > instead of back to Rev.
> >
> > Rev carries on because as far as it's concerned the shell command 
> > has finished, then you can do some kind of loop checking the output 
> > text file, without blocking.
> >
> > On 14 Aug 2006, at 09:48, Brian Yennie wrote:
> >
> >> You might try something like:
> >>
> >> get shell("mylongcommand > output.txt &")
> 
> That really sounded good, but did not work in the end :-/
> 
> My original blocking script:
> get shell("ditto" && sourcefile && targetfile)
> 
> Now with this extra param the file "targetfile" will be the extra param,
> which is extremely mentally challenging :-D
> # For the "output" file:
> put the tempname into tname
> get shell("ditto" && sourcefile && targetfile && tname && "&")
> 
> Does work non-blocking, but contents of tname = targetfile
> 
> Then I tried this clever trick ;-):
> ...
> get shell("ditto" && sourcefile && targetfile && targetfile && "&")
> which is blocking again...?
> 
> Obviously this trick does not work for copy/ditto actions, or am I 
> overlooking something here?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> http://www.major-k.de
> 
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