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| author | Ben Kochie <superq@gmail.com> | 2018-02-27 19:46:01 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-02-27 19:46:01 +0100 |
| commit | 483f59d1102cd83a1547d59d997cf6571801e196 (patch) | |
| tree | 1727ec3ec2d52bf7acaff62eee1d4f642f452731 /text_collector_examples | |
| parent | 864a6ee93578f22843d276d008d83a2c82af5f1d (diff) | |
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Document use of atomic wrapper (#781)
Document how to use `sponge` to atomic update textfiles.
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diff --git a/text_collector_examples/README.md b/text_collector_examples/README.md index 540c3dd..f47b37d 100644 --- a/text_collector_examples/README.md +++ b/text_collector_examples/README.md | |||
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| 3 | These scripts are examples to be used with the Node Exporter Textfile | 3 | These scripts are examples to be used with the Node Exporter Textfile |
| 4 | Collector. | 4 | Collector. |
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | To use these scripts, we recommend using a `sponge` to atomically write the output. | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | <collector_script> | sponge <output_file> | ||
| 9 | |||
| 10 | Sponge comes from [moreutils](https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/) | ||
| 11 | * [brew install moreutils](http://brewformulas.org/Moreutil) | ||
| 12 | * [apt install moreutils](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=moreutils) | ||
| 13 | |||
| 6 | For more information see: | 14 | For more information see: |
| 7 | https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#textfile-collector | 15 | https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#textfile-collector |