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Automatically update Pelican via Dropbox by using the following shell script as a cron running every minute. Just make sure your user can run "make" without needing sudo (causes a TTY error otherwise and fails).
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dropbox-pelican-auto-update
#!/bin/bash
Respawn="/home/user/Dropbox/files/respawn"
if [ -f $Respawn ]
then
make html -C /var/www/yoursite;rm $Respawn
else
exit 0
fi
exit 0
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