NAME

md5_produce.pl - produce XML/md5 for sets of files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: md5_produce.pl
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.13

SYNOPSIS

        md5_produce.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This script takes as input a set of files on the command line and produces an XML file according to the XML/md5 dtd I have defined which contains information about the files MD5 sum and modification times.

This type of information could later be used to: 0. Determine if further MD5 calculations are needed according to the files modification time (thus only needing to stat the file and not read it). 1. Determine if the file really changed just by looking at its new MD5 sum compared to its old MD5. This type of check could be made by smart build tools etc... 2. Other uses that I didn't think of (best ones).

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

copyright (type: bool, default: 0)

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

verbose (type: bool, default: 1)

noisy or quiet ?

output (type: newf, default: /tmp/file.xml)

output file name

directory (type: dire, default: .)

directory to scan

no free arguments are allowed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV books XML into database
        0.01 MV md5 project
        0.02 MV database
        0.03 MV perl module versions in files
        0.04 MV graph visualization
        0.05 MV more thumbnail stuff
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV improve the movie db xml
        0.10 MV web site automation
        0.11 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.12 MV move tests to modules
        0.13 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

IO(3), MIME::Base64(3), Meta::Digest::MD5(3), Meta::Utils::File::Iterator(3), Meta::Utils::File::Time(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), Meta::Xml::Writer(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.