Re: [tlug] Re: File change info on upload to server

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:

> >  For a couple of the files I maintain, I upload a datestamp file. See
> >  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/examples_date for one of these.
> >  People who want to see if it the file has changed simply need to grab
> >  that file periodically:
> >
> >  ....
> >  mv datestamp datestamp_prev
> >  wget http://......./datestamp
> >  set x=`diff datestamp datestamp_prev`
>
> What I *really* meant was:
>
> set x=`diff datestamp datestamp_prev | wc -l'

Thanks much Jim. This is the sort of thing I was thinking of.

Regards,

Chuck


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