Cygwin & in-memory storage of (temporary) files?

rapidgeo · 10-20-2010, 12:52 AM

Hi,

I am using Cygwin so writing to /dev/shm is not an option.

is there a Cygwin equivalent to write to device shared memory and then cat it back like the last example.

thanks.

Tinkster · 10-20-2010, 05:55 PM

Hi, welcome to LQ!

I took the liberty to cut your post out of the dead, unrelated
thread, and create a new thread for you. Please don't thread-jack
and necro-post. Enjoy your stay at LQ.

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Tink

rapidgeo · 10-20-2010, 11:43 PM

Hi,

sorry - didnt think it was an unrelated topic.

i had a loop which i was trying to speed up by not echo to file each time the loop ran so was trying to write to a /dev/shm as per previous posting.

regardless, i have recently been told the solution.

on each loop instead of echo $VAL > $FILE

Have a new variable updating dynamically

NEW="$NEW $VAL"

then at the end of the loop just echo $NEW

to do it with a line feed for each value do it

NEW="$NEW
$VAL"

then echo it out with echo "$NEW"

cheers.