Mac OS X equivalent of Linux flock(1) command

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Is there a flock command on Mac OS X that manages file lock?

http://linux.die.net/man/1/flock

Answer

sneak picture sneak · Jul 16, 2015

There is a cross-platform flock command here:

https://github.com/discoteq/flock

I have tested it and it works well on OSX as a drop-in replacement for the util-linux flock.

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