OK, you gurus out there are going to yawn about this one, I'm sure. But I ran the following from my shell prompt:
bzcat irradu00.g*bz2|perl dosearch.pl >usage.data.irradu00 Now, there are 72 files which match that pattern. Each file is about 35Mb and is highly compressed. I had no way to determine how far along I was at all. Just for fun, I fired up another shell session, did a cd into the same directory and entered: lsof irradu00.g*bz2 Behold! COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME bzcat 5794 john.mckown 3r REG 253,3 35692524 492 irradu00.g1028v00.bz2 bzcat is nice enought to open/close each file in its parameter list in order, from 0962 to 1036 (which verified via the ps -Af command). So I now have a way to get an idea how far along my process is. OK, it only works for something funky like this. But I am pleased and thought I would share. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
