From 9988125c56e859f96b9d1a0425e6564dff1d28e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval <baltakatei@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:41:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] test(unitproc):bkFreqWrite:Rewrote script to use while read

---
 unitproc/bkFreqWrite | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unitproc/bkFreqWrite b/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
index a4ce1d8..cec372e 100644
--- a/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
+++ b/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
@@ -5,18 +5,31 @@ yell() { echo "[$(date --iso-8601=ns)]:$0: $*" >&2; }      #o Yell, Die, Try Thr
 die() { yell "$*"; 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;
-- 
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