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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