If you have two concurrent processes, then I'm afraid there isn't much you can do to prevent this from happening (at least within the context of what you explained). The best that you can do is possibly to reduce the probability of this happening by filtering the list with a grep.

However, you might ask yourself the following questions: is it really necessary (or useful) to have two concurrent processes to run on the same set of files? If you really want two concurrent processes, can't you "specialize" them, i.e. tell them to work on different file sets (based for example on the file names, file owner or age, or some other property of the files)? I cannot help but think that there is likely something wrong in your process if these two concurrent processes work on the same files, process them and delete some of them.

Another solution would be, when you make your list, to pick up in an AoA or an AoH not only the file names, but also their age. Then your sort could be made on the filename/age pairs you've collected, and you would no longer have a problem when sorting them. But, you'd be processing names of files no longer existing, it may or may not make sense depending on the bigger picture which we don't know.

BTW, these are warnings, not errors. I hate to say that, but, if there is not consequence on your process, you might as well decide to ignore them or even to silence them (although I am very reluctant at this type of decision, that's not what I would do in such a case).

In reply to Re^3: Sort by -M by Laurent_R
in thread Sort by -M by roperl

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