09-09-2005
taking snapshot of a file
Hi
I would like to take snapshots or look at a file every few secs that its not being edited or not being made any changes. After a minute, if there were no changes, then I would like to call my application job.
Looking for command that does this. No success in googling it.
the test command just checks for the file existence, but i want to check for file changes before it can be read
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