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On Jul 23, 2012, at 16:01, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:48 PM, techno curmudgeon
> <technocurmudgeon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey folks,
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>> It's been a while since I've done much scripting, and my bash-fu is
>> embarrassingly lacking now. Anyway, if someone can give me a pointer
>> I'd appreciate it.
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>> I'm having bash backgrounding and file redirection issues. I expect
>> it's something simple and obvious, and I'm ok with that 8).
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>> OVERVIEW:
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>> I need to attach to a remote sensor box and record the ascii
>> datastream from that box onto disk files. I'd like to break
>> that datastream into segments of about 10 minutes each with a datetime
>> stamp suffixed onto the filename.
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>> To that end, I've got a bash script generates a filename, connects to
>> the remote box using nc, and > to the filename. (note that I've
>> set the timing in the attached code to 1 minute, rather than 10 minutes).=
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> I wonder if this is any help?
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526782/how-do-i-limit-the-running-time-=
of-a-bash-script
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> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout
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> http://redflo.de/tiki-index.php?page=3DBash+script+with+timeout+function
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> I myself do something similar to using nc, although in my case I am
> logging MP3 data, and using socat, which has a -T timeout option; in
> my case however, I am rolling over to a new timestamp whenever no data
> has been received > $TIMEOUT seconds. I don't think this will help
> you, so I won't post my script here.
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> I think the above examples, with launching a subshell and then killing
> it after sleep n, might be what you want.
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> jermudgeon
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