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Re: [Bug-wget] feature proposal, "--hashes"
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: [Bug-wget] feature proposal, "--hashes" |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:27:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
I am not convinced it is desiderable to implement this feature in wget
as it can be easily done with sha1sum or md5sum (and a small script).
These tools can also read sums from files and verify them.
It is quite meaningless, I think, to print the checksum to the screen as
it can't easily be used by scripts.
What is exactly your use case? Can it be done using a script?
Thanks,
Giuseppe
"gregry ." <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I recently joined the list to propose and discuss a new feature I'm
> considering adding to wget. Namely, a command line option to generate hashes
> of downloaded content as downloading progresses. This would typically be
> used in cases where the user wants to download something, and would also like
> to verify the integrity of what they've downloaded without requiring a manual
> second step (and re-read of the entire file from storage).
>
> For example instead of simply:
> wget http://favorite-distro.org/current/dvd.iso
> ... the user could specify an option to also generate hashes of downloaded
> content:
> wget --hashes md5,sha1 http://favorite-distro.org/current/dvd.iso
> ... and after the download is successful, the digests of the content would be
> printed to the screen or log file, or both.
>
>
>