: Track the modification time of files with a regeneratable website I have a website that is automatically regenerated every day based on a fresh copy of an externally-supplied database, which has

@Nickens628

I don't know of a specific tool to do that. However, and since you write the generator, you could work out a simple process where you (1) generate the page and (2) copy the resulting page to where it goes only if it changed. This is assuming your generator creates the page the exact same way every time (i.e. you do not add a creation date & time in your documents.)

So...

generate /tmp/page-123
if ! cmp /tmp/page-123 $WEBSITE_PATH/page-123
then
cp /tmp/page-123 $WEBSITE_PATH/page-123
fi


Then your other tools can make use of the modification time of the file under $WEBSITE_PATH since it won't change when the new database comes in.

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