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Created February 17, 2017 19:11
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Detect page changes and emit a high beep
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detect_page_change.sh
# lynx --dump URL > old.html && watch -n 10 "./detect_page_change.sh"
#
#!/bin/bash
RESULT=`diff old.html <(lynx --dump URL)`
if [ "x`printf '%s' "$RESULT" | tr -d "$IFS"`" = x ]; then
echo "NOTHING NEW"
else
( speaker-test -t sine -f 1000 )& pid=$! ; sleep 3.1s ; kill -9 $pid
echo "NEWS"
echo $RESULT
fi
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