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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run script if new file exists. Post 302464949 by BeefStu on Thursday 21st of October 2010 10:33:53 AM
Old 10-21-2010
First start off by creating the .toc file toc=table of contents
==============================

ls -tl <your directory> > <your directory>/.toc
===========================

Next create a script that does the following:

ls -tl <your directory> > /tmp/.toc # or what ever dir you want just make
# sure your not overwriting
# the current .toc file.

diff /tmp/.toc <directory with orig>/.toc > /dev/null 2>&1
if [$? -ne 0 ]
then # something changed
mv /tmp/.toc <directory with orig>/.toc
Do the rest of your processing
....
.....
.....
.toc
else
echo "No changes"
fi

Note: I prefernce .toc with the "." so a simple ls command will not pick
it up. You can run this as often as you like.

Good luck
 

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doctools::msgcat::toc::fr(n)					Documentation tools				      doctools::msgcat::toc::fr(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       doctools::msgcat::toc::fr - Message catalog for the doctoc parser (FR)

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require msgcat

       package require doctools::msgcat::toc::fr  ?0.1?

_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The  package  doctools::msgcat::toc::fr is a support module providing the FR (french) language message catalog for the doctoc parser in the
       doctools system version 2. As such it is an internal package a regular user (developer) should not be in direct contact with.

       If you are such please go the documentation of either

       [1]    doctools::doc,

       [2]    doctools::toc, or

       [3]    doctools::idx

       Within the system architecture this package resides under the package doctools::msgcat providing the  general  message  catalog	management
       within  the  system.  Note  that there is no explicit dependency between the manager and catalog packages. The catalog is a plugin which is
       selected and loaded dynamically.

API

       This package has no exported API.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category doctools
       of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       FR, catalog package, doctoc, doctools, i18n, internationalization, l10n, localization, message catalog, message package

CATEGORY

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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

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