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Old 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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Old 09-09-2005
A random thought ... you may be able to run the file periodically through 'md5sum' to compute the checksum, remember it, and compare it with the next computation to check if the content of the file has been tampered with.
 
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