On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 08:26:59AM -0500, Saint Michael wrote: > In this case, how do I quickly increase the number stored in "foo"? > the file has 10000 as content, and I have a new value to add to it quickly. > Is there an atomic way to read,add, write a value to "foo"?
Nope! It's almost like bash isn't a real programming language, huh? (The workaround you're looking for is called "locking". My FAQ has a page about it, but it's pretty basic stuff, intended to prevent two instances of a script from running simultaneously, not for distributed computing applications.)
