#file-change #filesystem #file #hash #change

app smokehash

Check files for changes using SHA256 hash function using user provided lists file

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Aug 17, 2024

#194 in Command-line interface

MIT/Apache

1.5MB
328 lines

Smoke Hash

Check for file changes across your filesystem (Windows, Linux, macOS - if your system is not listed, try with cargo install or download source and build)

Installation

cargo install smokehash

or use binary fro your OS from Github releases page

Use cases

  • Automated trading bots logs - you can check for activity
  • Check for automatically donloaded contente - if it changed
  • Lookup your logs - maybe someone finnaly visited your website
  • On penetration testing contracts - look for changes in extracted cookies, sql databases and such
  • Overall changes in files - you just want to know

Excerpt from help

smokehash 0.1.0
Neosb <neosb@nuteksecurity.com>
Check files for changes using SHA256 hash function using user provided lists file

PATH_TO_FILE1
PATH_TO_FILE2

Usage: smokehash [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -l, --list-file <LIST_FILE>          List of files you want to check for changes and at the same time storage file for SHA256 hash values of files
  -c, --create-list <CREATE_LIST>      Create list of files in directory
      --exclude-dirs <EXCLUDE_DIRS>    Exclude directories, especially useful when creating a list delimited by ',' - comma
      --exclude-files <EXCLUDE_FILES>  Exclude files, especially useful when creating a list delimited by ',' - comma
  -v, --verbose                        Should it echo files and status as it checks
  -h, --help                           Print help
  -V, --version                        Print version

Roadmap

  • Compartmentalize (make more functions) - right now program is in src/main.rs file
  • Write proper unit tests, when comparmentalization is done
  • Add .gitignore parsing as a bool flag to clap - which will look in every directory for a .gitignore file and will use it

License

Apache-2.0 or MIT

Dependencies

~1.8–9MB
~85K SLoC