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To help someone on r/raspberry_pi
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feedalarmer.sh
#!/bin/bash
BEFORE=0
while true
do
wget https://news.ycombinator.com/rss -q -O test
NOW=$(wc -c test | grep -o -P "\d+")
if [ "$NOW" -ne "$BEFORE" ] ; then
mplayer Alert.ogg
fi
BEFORE=$NOW
sleep 5
done
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