Will it work to:
a) Wait until Acrobat Reader is running
b) Sleep long enough ...
Instead of depending on timing, which will always get messed up when
you can least afford it, get a list of the open files from the system.
man lsof
There should be better ways to get the file handle, but you s
On 28 maj 2006, at 01.34, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:27:02AM +0200, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
system('acroread', 'myfile.pdf');
unlink
This may not be what you are looking for, but if you were
to name the files in a way that uses the date, then
you can just delete the old ones the next day.
Joe.
On May 28, 2006, at 5:34 PM, wren ng thornton wrote:
--- Chris Devers wrote:
Really??
In my experience, the `open` command immedia
--- Chris Devers wrote:
> Really??
>
> In my experience, the `open` command immediately
> returns control to the controlling process (the
shell,
> or whatever else invoked it (pine etc)) without
> waiting for the `open`ed application to finish, or
for
> that matter even to finish launching.
Othe
Except, of course, this is Unix, and we have i-nodes, and the system
knows how to hold onto a file until all links are gone, as I recall.
Ergo, just delete it once you know the viewer has it open, IIRC.
There is only one way to be sure it is _your_ child process that has
opened it. I'm pretty
Joel Rees wrote:
Except, of course, this is Unix, and we have i-nodes, and the system
knows how to hold onto a file until all links are gone, as I recall.
Ergo, just delete it once you know the viewer has it open, IIRC.
Which is fine, but if you use 'open' to fork off and run Acrobat in
par
Chris Devers wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2006, David Cantrell wrote:
if instead you're doing something like ...
system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
then you'll need to:
wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
wait around until that PID disappears;
Really??
In my experienc
28 maj 2006 kl. 02.47 skrev Chris Devers:
On Sun, 28 May 2006, David Cantrell wrote:
if instead you're doing something like ...
system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
then you'll need to:
wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
wait around until that PID disappear
if instead you're doing something like ...
system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
then you'll need to:
wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
wait around until that PID disappears;
Really??
In my experience, the `open` command immediately returns control to the
con
On Sun, 28 May 2006, David Cantrell wrote:
> if instead you're doing something like ...
>
> system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
>
> then you'll need to:
>
> wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
> wait around until that PID disappears;
Really??
In my experience,
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:27:02AM +0200, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
> My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
> How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
system('acroread', 'myfile.pdf');
unlink('myfile.pdf');
if instead you're doing something
My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
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