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Even if you wanted to implement a solution like this, which you shouldn't, why on earth monitor the MD5 sum instead of just the mtime of the file???? Like, doing a checksum is the least efficient method of checking this possible.
Like, you could do a simple while loop with a
find myfile.txt +mmin 1; sleep 30in it. Adjust numbers to your desired tolerance.Again, don't do that. But if you must, definitely don't do an md5sum for godssake.