Ok, I am 80% of the way there with this one. My web host places weekly logs onto my server every week. I have set up a script to check if the logs are there using Transmit, if they are then they are downloaded into a folder with the other logs. I then run a config file through Analog that uses the logs. So far so good.
Trouble is I have 3 config files I want to run, each takes around 45mins-1hour. I can’t run more than one at a time. How can I use Applescript to find out if Analog is still running from the previous run? The only AS command it supports is doScript where you can enter your own script such as Perl, or UNIX scripts or something.
At the moment I am running 3 scripts, 1 to get the logs and start the first config file and two others for the remaing files. I want to be able to just run the one script and get it to do it all.
Does Analog quit when it has finished a script? If so, then (illustrated with Safari, don’t know what the Analog process is called):
tell application "System Events" to exists process "safari"
set SafariRunning to result
If it doesn’t quit, consider a shell script using ‘top’ to see what it’s doing.
If it’s creating a file whose size changes, consider this:
to fileChanged(myFile)
-- initialize the loop
set Size_1 to size of (info for myFile) -- get initial size
delay 3 --wait 3 seconds, or whatever
set Size_2 to size of (info for myFile) -- get a newer size, perhaps bigger
-- repeat until sizes match
repeat while Size_2 ≠Size_1 -- if they don't equal, loop until they do
set Size_1 to Size_2 -- new base size
delay 3 --wait three seconds, or whatever
set Size_2 to size of (info for myFolder) -- get a newer size
end repeat -- once the sizes match, the download is done
end fileChanged
If it closes the file it’s preparing when it’s done, consider a do shell script using lsof (list open files) and wait for it to close - something like this:
--set source_folder to (alias "TheVolume:ThePath:TheFile:")
set var to false
repeat until var = true
try
set the_files to (do shell script "lsof -F n +d " & (quoted form of POSIX path of source_folder))
on error the_error
if the_error = "The command exited with a non-zero status." then
set var to true
display dialog "The Document is closed"
else
set the_files to the_error
end if
end try
delay 1
end repeat
or this:
try
open for access file x -- if this succeeds, the file is not busy.
close access result
exit repeat
on error -- file is busy
delay 3 -- times it out in 1 minute
end try
or this:
tell application "Finder"
activate
repeat while not (exists file (PathToFile & FileName))
delay 2
end repeat
end tell
