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Re: [Help-bash] Annihilating data
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Quentin L'Hours |
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Re: [Help-bash] Annihilating data |
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Fri, 2 Nov 2018 13:38:48 -0700 |
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On 2018-11-02 11:56 AM, Paul-Jürgen Wagner wrote:
This works reasonably, but I am pretty sure that there is a much smarter
solution to this, probably by using cat, putting it in the background,
sleeping for the skip-duration and then killing it? Any comments or tips?
I would have done this as you described (cat + sleep + kill), though I
think this isn't the best solution either:
analyze() {
cat <&0 > /dev/null &
sleep "$end"
kill "$!"
<process the rest>
}
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Quentin