Advanced users • Crontab to check file and run command?

Hi all,

I'm after some help here!

I need to be able to monitor a given file at regular intervals, and if a given value is present, to run a command (basically I need to monitor a file 'output.txt' and if the value is present, run a command to trigger a pager message - I know the command for that!)

I'm assuming I could use a cron job to do this, but i'm struggling to work out how to do it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

J

Statistics: Posted by G0FHM — Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:47 am — Replies 4 — Views 52

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