unitproc/bkFreqWrite

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2 # Desc: Writes stdin to disk every 5 minutes
   3
   4 yell() { echo "[$(date --iso-8601=ns)]:$0: $*" >&2; }      #o Yell, Die, Try Three-Fingered Claw technique
   5 die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; }     #o Ref/Attrib: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25515370
   6 try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; } #o
   7
   8 declare -a buffer
   9
  10 yell "Script started."
  11
  12 mapfile -s4 -n5 buffer
  13
  14 yell "Contents of buffer:${buffer[@]}";
  15
  16 for element in "${buffer[@]}"; do
  17     echo "$element";
  18     sleep 1;
  19 done;
  20
  21 yell "Script completed."
  22 exit 0;