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Checks a page for new content, and if it has changed refreshes chromium
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refresh-if-changed.sh
#!/bin/bash
site="https://menu.lolev.beer"
previous=`cat checksum`
current=`curl -s $site | md5sum`
echo "$current" > checksum
echo "Previous contents of page: $previous"
echo "Current contents of page: $current"
if [ "$previous" != "$current" ]
then
`DISPLAY=:0.0 xdotool key ctrl+R`
echo "Page refreshing"
else
echo "Content matches, skipping refresh"
fi
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