[ale] flock

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

I need to put an exclusive lock on a couple of files during a process to
make sure they are not written to during the script run. I'm unclear on
the use of flock within bash.

What I _want_ to do is

lock file(s)
extract data from the locked file
do more stuff (i.e. get mtime on locked file, etc)
unlock file(s)

Reading the man pages on flock are not helping. It _looks_ like:

flock -x <file-to-lock> -c <external-script-that-processes-stuff>

will do it but I can't figure out a way to test this.
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