in reply to Best way for testing the end of the filling of a Tar file before opening it.

I think I would do something like this:

while( my $file = getNextFilename() ) { my $size = -s $file; sleep 1; next if -s( $file ) != $size; ## Pick it up next time around. ## process complete files }

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