tlevine / md5-checker

Checking checksums

MD5Checker

This module is a simple utility to examine a file's checksum

Install

One-liner

pip install md5checker

Other ways

git clone https://github.com/trendsetter37/md5-checker
cd md5-checker

Followed by:

python setup.py install

or

pip install .

Testing (Development)

Inside the root directory, run

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
py.test

or

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
python setup.py test

Usage

Command Line

md5checker "Space containing directory/path-to-file.extension"

Surround path with double quotes if it contains spaces. Otherwise quotations are unnecessary.

md5checker space-containing-directory/path-to-file.extension

Options

Get version.

md5checker -v
0.2.0

List hash algorithms.

md5checker -a

Use alternate hash algorithm.

md5checker setup.cfg -a sha1
bf72c7d5ca4a4b2731bde5cfcc323ce64b533865

Module

>>> from md5checker import make_hash
>>> make_hash('setup.cfg')
ad895e8b0bd7d47e2a793dca3730aead
>>> make_hash('setup.cfg', algo='sha1')
bf72c7d5ca4a4b2731bde5cfcc323ce64b533865

Available algorithms

• MD5
• SHA1
• SHA224
• SHA256
• SHA384
• SHA512