File Checksum

Generate checksums for files.

This program will generate checksums for either a single file, or all the files in a directory.

Installation

cargo install --path .

File Checkksum can also be installed with binaries provided with each release here.

Usage

Generate

• Arguments:

  • <CHECKSUM_PATH> Path to the directory or file for which to generate checksums

• Options:

  • -o, --output-file <OUTPUT_FILE> Path to the file to same the checksums. Must be a .txt file. If no path is provided the output will be printed to the screen and not saved
  • -c, --checksum-type <CHECKSUM_TYPE> The type of checksum to generate. [default: sha256] [possible values: md5, sha1, sha256]
  • --overwrite Overwrite the output file rather than appending to it
  • -v, --verbose Provides more output while running
  • -h, --help Print help

Example

If we have the files my_file_1.xml and my_file_2.xml in the home/my_files directory, checksums can be generated for the files by running:

checksum /home/my_files -o /home/checksums.txt

The will create a file called checksums.txt in the /home directory containing the following information (hashes made up for example purposes)

sha256 checksum: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 - my_file_1.xml
sha256 checksum: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 - my_file_2.xml

Subsequent runs pointing to the same output file will append the results to the file so checksums from different directores can be save to the same file. Passing the --overwrite flag will clear the contents of the file before writing instead of appending to the file.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome. If you are interesting in contributing please see our contributing guide