die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; } #o Ref/Attrib: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25515370
try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; } #o
-declare -a buffer
+declare -a buffer # Initialize buffer array
+scriptTTL="15";
+bufferTTL="5";
-yell "Script started."
+magicWriteBuffer() {
+ printf "%s\n" "${buffer[@]}" >> /dev/shm/$(date +%s)..bkFreqWrite-output.txt;
+}
-mapfile -s4 -n5 buffer
-
-yell "Contents of buffer:${buffer[@]}";
-
-for element in "${buffer[@]}"; do
- echo "$element";
- sleep 1;
+bufferRound=0
+# Run until script TTL seconds pass
+while [[ $SECONDS -lt "scriptTTL" ]]; do
+ bufferTOD="$((SECONDS + $bufferTTL))";
+ lineCount=0
+ # Start and fill buffer until buffer time-of-death (TOD) arrives
+ while read -r line && [[ $SECONDS -lt "$bufferTOD" ]]; do
+ # Append line to buffer
+ buffer+=("$line");
+ echo "Processing line:$lineCount";
+ echo "Current line :$line";
+ echo "buf elem count :${#buffer[@]}";
+ ((lineCount++));
+ done;
+ # Export buffer to asynchronous processing.
+ magicWriteBuffer &
+ unset buffer;
+ # Increment buffer round
+ ((bufferRound++));
done;
-
-yell "Script completed."
-exit 0;