Hello Ravi,

what I would do is use signals to give a nudge to the long running process...

I have included a print statement (you can make that to log one single entry in a logfile) OR, also fancy, modify the name of the script $0 directly, hence, you get the information through ps -ef (used by some programs). There are more ways, like named pipes, etc.

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $SHOUT = 0;
$SIG{USR1} = sub {
        ++$SHOUT;
};

my $PROGRAM = $0;
print "$PROGRAM started with pid $$\n";

my $counter = 0;
while(1) {
        $counter++;
        if($SHOUT){
                print "$0 says: $counter \n";
                $0 = $PROGRAM . " counter=$counter";
                $SHOUT = 0;
        }
        sleep 1;
}

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The nudge is given with a kill -USR1 $PID

Update:

The normal way is to have a second program that asks for ETA and status. This second program send the signal, then both programs then initiate a temporal TCP connection to send/receive the information. But from what I read in your post, you want to keep it simple. The other way is to only update your linenumber logfile each 10 seconds. you will need $NEXTUPDATE = time()+1000*10 and do compares if(time()>$NEXTUPDATE) This will use much less IO than logging each line.

edit2: added missing my's. And Do'h, suggesting same things as peers... sorry for that.

*important note*: Do not use IO in signals. Your script could coredump if you open files and such. Do the work outside.

In reply to Re: Want to know Line number of the input file by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread Want to know Line number of the input file by ravi45722

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