chlori (usenet314+arto.ch) writes:

> - File One gets lines added to it every few minutes.
> - A shell script should copy the first line into File Two and so on
> until File Two has 100 lines.
> - Then File Three is created and the same is done there.

You cold use named pipe (man mkfifo):

$ mkfifo sh17

then configure the app (or whatever) to write lines to that pipe and
finally your shell script would look like:

NUM=0
while NFS= read LINE; do
read
printf '%s\n' "$LINE" >file-$(($NUM / 100))
NUM=$(($NUM + 1))
done <sh17

or something similar. I hope you got the idea.


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