Joey Prestia wrote:
> Problem: I need to come up a script that I can use to test if between 30
> to 50 mirrors are carrying the content of a particular page in its
> unchanged form. I would guess to create a script with maybe a for loop
> and a file with the web addresses of these mirrors and run a diff on the
> pages then send any errors to me so if the site is failing to maintain
> its content I can be notified. I am still quite new to this but am sure
> it can be done with a script that I could run as a cron job instead of
> manually testing each of the pages several times a week. Any suggestions
> on how I could load the site content to do this and what commands would
> be best suited?
> Thanks Joey
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wget is a command-line interface for web pages. You could use that to
download the web pages into a file and then do something like diff,
md5sum, sha1sum, etc. to see if they are the same.
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