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useful for automating deployments
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sleep-until-modified-invoke.sh
wget https://bitbucket.org/denilsonsa/small_scripts/raw/9159fee62dc7cca7f81f47cef41bd9ae1324553e/sleep_until_modified.py
chmod u+x ./sleep_until_modified.py
touch testfile.old
touch testfile
#note limitation of this script: needs file to exist beforehand
while ./sleep_until_modified.py testfile || sleep 1; do echo "diff detected" $( date -u --rfc-3339=seconds ) ; diff testfile.old testfile ; cp testfile testfile.old ; done
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sleep-until-modified-test.sh
# in a new terminal - for testing purposes
sleep 2 && echo "a new line" >> testfile
sleep 1 && touch testfile
sleep 1 && echo "another line" >> testfile
sleep 2 && touch testfile
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