#!/bin/sh FN=/tmp/foo if [ ! -f "$FN" ] then echo "blah blah blah" > "$FN" fi HASH=`md5sum "$FN"` echo "Content-type: text/plain" echo "E-tag: $HASH" echo Last-Modified: `date -r /tmp/foo '+%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z'` echo "" # don't pollute server environment output with our local additions unset FN unset HASH set