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Does any one have a script to wrap a file to a fixed length, where I can pass the lenght as a variable. Any pointers would be helpful, Thank you!

Thanks for your input, ALL. I stumbled onto something that worked perfectly for me. It is a simple scenario where I have to concatenate files from a specific production directory. I can't do a "cat * > catfl" because the production job could be writing to the directory at the same...

can't find this command on our system, is there any other way? Thanks

how do i check if a file is being written to? and/or wait for it to finish writing, before i perform further processing? thanks in advance

Got it ! thanks vlad marsd you are cool

thanks vlad, that answers part of my question could be so kind to take a look at this: I am parsing a log file Oct 2 05:50:07 /mniprod/xmit/o.coneg.1002020346 Oct 2 05:50:15 /mniprod/xmit/o.coneg.1002020347 Oct 2 05:50:27 /mniprod/xmit/o.coneg.1002020356 Oct 2 05:51:08...

yes, i know but how do i get that value into a variable back in the awk program?

how can i get the filesize of a file from inside the awk program? Thanks in advance edi