Synchronous hard drive writes from shell script

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> From: Radek Tomis <rts@mediumsoft.cz>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:01 PM

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> 1. Inside your script for individual output commands:
>
>      fildes 1=~,A+S : echo "line" >> /tmp/file
>
>    This will append "line" to "/tmp/file" synchronously (i.e. the line
>    will be physically written to the disk drive before the command 'echo'
>    returns).
>
>    Consider the following example using different output command:
>
>      fildes 1=~,S : tail -300 /usr/adm/messages > /tmp/file
>
>    This will synchronously append last 300 lines of "/usr/adm/messages"
>    to "/tmp/file.

Sorry, this will not append, but create/overwrite instead.
For append, add "+A" to "1=~,S" (">>" instead of ">" isn't necessary).

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