dotlockfile

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Does anyone have a bash script that does essentially the same thing as 
>the 'dotlockfile' utility?
>
>I have a system without dotlockfile but I need that functionality to 
>keep a script from clobbering itself.

I often use the ``shlock'' from inn.

Bill
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