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JayHoo
05-28-2009, 10:30 AM
Does anyone know how to wait for a file to be created? I know I can test if a file exists with "filetest -r $file" but I need to wait until this file is rendered and written to disk.
uiron
05-28-2009, 02:57 PM
check once a second? in a "while not file exists, sleep for 1 second" way? not very clean, ofc.
Robert Bateman
05-28-2009, 05:01 PM
you could try evalDefferred, or alternatively start the render using the command line render (rather than the GUI) via popen and wait for the pipe to close.
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