On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:36:34AM -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > >Your intention sounds a bit "obscure". > > > > > > > Maybe I should elaborate. > > I'm currently working on a small script that typically runs for about 8 > minutes. Part of what it does is set up a RAID array on a 3WARE > controller and then partition that space using fdisk and then format > that partition for an ext3 file system. All this takes time on a 2TB array. > > While the script is executing, if I see something I want to fix or add > to the script, can I emacs the script file and modify it while it is > still being executed? No. Before thescript execute the entire file is read "into" the bash execution environemnt (usually in a spawned sub-shell) and that "image" of the script will not be affected by any changes you make to the file. -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ <a href=http://kinz.org>Kinz</a> http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
