Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:08:47 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical question about scripts Message-ID: <20030403030847.GA11156@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030402205519.00a05e10@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030402205519.00a05e10@pop.voyager.net>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote:
> I've got a bit of a technical question about doing scripts. I've
> created a script that I use for expediting changes to one of my servers to
> save me a large number or repetitive steps that I have to do. My question
> is this though. Using either Pico or VI I need to be able to have the
> script know if I've saved/changed the file or if I just exited out without
> saving my changes. Cause if I exited out without saving changes, I want it
> to abort the rest of the script, but if I changed any one of my config
> files, I want it to then complete the rest of the script. Anyone know how
> to do this via a shell script?
Keep a md5 checksum of the old file. If the checksum differs on the
file after edit, it must have changed.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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