Locking files from a shell script

[Klaas D. Eenkhoorn]

Thanks,

The ln solution works for me !
Good thinking.

Thanks for the replies.

Kl@@s

[dirk dierickx]

just for completion, it seems you are creating a script that can be called while the previous execution might still be running, but they cannot run at the same time.

the clean unix way is to use .pid files in the /var/run directory. this file contains the pid of the active running process.

this has several interesting advantages;
- you know there is (still) something running
- it is easy to kill, by just cating the pid file.
- all files are at one location
etc.