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RCS is still useful[1], at least I used for this.
T=`mktemp -d /tmp/differ-XXXXXXXXX`
cd $T
mkdir RCS
touch f
ci -t-desc f
while true
do
co -l f
$* 2>&1 | tr -cd '[:print:]\n' > f
if ! rcsdiff f > /dev/null 2>&1
then
rcsdiff -c 10 f | mail -s "$*" $USER
fi
ci -mc f
sleep 60
done
[1] some RCS articles I stumbled upon -
gopher://box.matto.nl/0/rcs.txt