Re: [Bug-wget] execute external command only if download occurs with time stamping

[Micah Cowan]

 On 10/20/2010 04:34 AM, Kamenik, Aleksander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I periodically download a file with "wget -N someurl". I want to execute some 
> external program to process the downloaded file, but only when wget actually 
> downloaded a new version of it.
>
> I'm using time stamping and wget always exits with zero if it could contact 
> the server. So I can't use "wget -N someurl && somescript.sh", this would 
> always execute the program.
>
> Currently I use the -nv switch and then count lines of stderr+stdout and if 
> it's 1, then execute the script.
>
> Is there a better way, something like find's --exec?
>
> Wget version 1.11.4 on linux

If you obtain the more recent release, 1.12, better handling of exit
codes should allow you to use the && somescript.sh syntax, I think.

Hope that helps,

-mjc