Script Help (Bash)

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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still haven't mastered bash, not even a jack (
>
> Have strung some command(s) together in /etc/cron.daily
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ## Download no-bebug rawhide kernel
> /usr/bin/cd /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug-source/packages
> && \ /usr/bin/reposync  --source -n =fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug
> kernel && \
> ##  used to rebuild new no-debug
> ##  Rawhide kernels for non eol FedoraN
> /usr/local/bin/mock-kernel ---> (which is below question)
> Question: How do I prevent the above line from happening if nothing
> new was downloaded?

While there might be a cleaner way to detect that something was
downloaded what I do is log the output from reposync and then

if grep -q Download REPOSYNCLOG; then
  # do stuff when new things were synced
fi

John