From d642682dfeaa0e7788fd3db7b01f92897f7f88e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval <baltakatei@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:26:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] test(unitproc):bkFreqWrite: Implem. basic mapfile reading

---
 unitproc/bkFreqWrite | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/unitproc/bkFreqWrite b/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
index 277396e..a4ce1d8 100644
--- a/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
+++ b/unitproc/bkFreqWrite
@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Desc: Writes stdin to disk every 5 minutes
 
+yell() { echo "[$(date --iso-8601=ns)]:$0: $*" >&2; }      #o Yell, Die, Try Three-Fingered Claw technique
+die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; }     #o Ref/Attrib: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25515370
+try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; } #o
 
+declare -a buffer
+
+yell "Script started."
+
+mapfile -s4 -n5 buffer
+
+yell "Contents of buffer:${buffer[@]}";
+
+for element in "${buffer[@]}"; do
+    echo "$element";
+    sleep 1;
+done;
+
+yell "Script completed."
+exit 0;
-- 
2.30.2