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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Sarath Lakshman Sarath Lakshman
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Tracking changes to a website

Tracking website changes is useful for both web developers and users. Checking a website manually is impractical, but a change tracking script can be run at regular intervals. When a change occurs, it generates a notification.

Getting ready

Tracking changes in terms of Bash scripting means fetching websites at different times and taking the difference using the diff command. We can use curl and diff to do this.

How to do it...

This Bash script combines different commands, to track changes in a web page:

#!/bin/bash 
#Filename: change_track.sh 
#Desc: Script to track changes to webpage...
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