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Re: Using Make in frequent cron job


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Using Make in frequent cron job
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:40:02 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

Hello Kenneth,

* Kenneth Porter wrote on Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:40:43AM CEST:
> Is there a way to get Make to be silent when it does nothing, but have its 
> normal verbosity when something is made?
> 
> I want to use Make in a frequent cron job (every 1/2 hour, perhaps 10 
> minutes) but I don't want to get a bunch of emails telling me nothing was 
> done (which will be most of the time). I just want to know when it found 
> something to do.

How about
  make -q >/dev/null 2>&1 || make

?

Cheers,
Ralf



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