The problem with all your solutions is that want me to write to multiple files and combine them the only problem with that is that myscript.prl is actually being called locally on different wkstations when by 
system("rshto $wks myscript.prl >> $tmp_file");

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and we have over 200,000 wkstations here were the script is supposed to run. I thought about writing to different files too, but the sheer number of temp log files generated make this impractical, and the extra code to put these files back by date/time stamp and then unlink("$tmp_file") is also needed. I was wondering if there is a way in perl to know if the file is being written too currently, and if its is being wriiten to wait until no other process is writing to it.

In reply to Re: (Ovid) Re: Writing to a file by jalebie
in thread Writing to a file by jalebie

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