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This works in cygwin and Linux. Some of the previous solutions which write a file will cause the disk to thrash. This scipt does not have that problem:

SIG=1
SIG0=SIGSIG0=$SIG
while [ $SIG != 0 ] ; do
 while [ $SIG = $SIG0 ] ; do
   SIG=`ls -1 | md5sum | cut -c1-32`
   sleep 10
 done
 SIG0=$SIG
 ls -lrt | tail -n 1
done

This works in cygwin and Linux. Some of the previous solutions which write a file will cause the disk to thrash. This scipt does not have that problem:

SIG=1
SIG0=SIG
while [ $SIG != 0 ] ; do
 while [ $SIG = $SIG0 ] ; do
   SIG=`ls -1 | md5sum | cut -c1-32`
   sleep 10
 done
 SIG0=$SIG
 ls -lrt | tail -n 1
done

This works in cygwin and Linux. Some of the previous solutions which write a file will cause the disk to thrash. This scipt does not have that problem:

SIG=1
SIG0=$SIG
while [ $SIG != 0 ] ; do
 while [ $SIG = $SIG0 ] ; do
   SIG=`ls -1 | md5sum | cut -c1-32`
   sleep 10
 done
 SIG0=$SIG
 ls -lrt | tail -n 1
done
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user1186515
user1186515
  • 1
  • 1

This works in cygwin and Linux. Some of the previous solutions which write a file will cause the disk to thrash. This scipt does not have that problem:

SIG=1
SIG0=SIG
while [ $SIG != 0 ] ; do
 while [ $SIG = $SIG0 ] ; do
   SIG=`ls -1 | md5sum | cut -c1-32`
   sleep 10
 done
 SIG0=$SIG
 ls -lrt | tail -n 1
done