Digest::MD5::File(3pm)

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NAME

6       Digest::MD5::File - Perl extension for getting MD5 sums for files and
7       urls.
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SYNOPSIS

10           use Digest::MD5::File qw(dir_md5_hex file_md5_hex url_md5_hex);
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12           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
13           $md5->addpath('/path/to/file');
14           my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
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16           my $digest = file_md5($file);
17           my $digest = file_md5_hex($file);
18           my $digest = file_md5_base64($file);
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20           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
21           $md5->addurl('http://www.tmbg.com/tour.html');
22           my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
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24           my $digest = url_md5($url);
25           my $digest = url_md5_hex($url);
26           my $digest = url_md5_base64($url);
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28           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
29           $md5->adddir('/directory');
30           my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
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32           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5($dir);
33           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_hex($dir);
34           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_base64($dir);
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DESCRIPTION

37         Get MD5 sums for files of a given path or content of a given url.
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EXPORT

40       None by default.  You can export any file_* dir_*, or url_* function
41       and anything Digest::MD5 can export.
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43          use Digest::MD5::File qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64); # 3 Digest::MD5 functions
44          print md5_hex('abc123'), "\n";
45          print md5_base64('abc123'), "\n";
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OBJECT METHODS

48   addpath()
49           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
50           $md5->addpath('/path/to/file.txt')
51               or die "file.txt is not where you said: $!";
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53       or you can add multiple files by specifying an array ref of files:
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55           $md5->addpath(\@files);
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57   adddir()
58       addpath()s each file in a directory recursively. Follows the same rules
59       as the dir_* functions.
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61           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
62           $md5->adddir('/home/tmbg/')
63               or die "See warning above to see why I bailed: $!";
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65   addurl()
66           my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
67           $md5->addurl('http://www.tmbg.com/tour.html')
68               or die "They Must Be not on tour";
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file_* functions

71       Get the digest in variouse formats of $file.  If file does not exist or
72       is a directory it croaks (See NOFATALS for more info)
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74           my $digest = file_md5($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";
75           my $digest = file_md5_hex($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";
76           my $digest = file_md5_base64($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";
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dir_* functions

79       Returns a hashref whose keys are files relative to the given path and
80       the values are the MD5 sum of the file or and empty string if a
81       directory.  It recurses through the entire depth of the directory.
82       Symlinks to files are just addpath()d and symlinks to directories are
83       followed.
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85           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";
86           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_hex($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";
87           my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_base64($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";
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url_* functions

90       Get the digest in various formats of the content at $url (Including, if
91       $url points to directory, the directory listing content).  Returns
92       undef if url fails (IE if LWP::UserAgent's $res->is_success is false)
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94           my $digest = url_md5($url) or warn "$url failed";
95           my $digest = url_md5_hex($url) or warn "$url failed";
96           my $digest = url_md5_base64($url) or warn "$url failed";
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SPECIAL SETTINGS

99   BINMODE
100       By default files are opened in binmode. If you do not want to do this
101       you can unset it a variety of ways:
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103           use Digest::MD5::File qw(-nobin);
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107           $Digest::MD5::File::BINMODE = 0;
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109       or at the function/method level by specifying its value as the second
110       argument:
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112           $md5->addpath($file,0);
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114           my $digest = file_md5_hex($file,0);
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116   UTF8
117       In some cases you may want to have your data utf8 encoded, you can do
118       this the following ways:
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120           use Digest::MD5::File qw(-utf8);
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124           $Digest::MD5::File::UTF8 = 1;
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126       or at the function/method level by specifying its value as the third
127       argument for files and second for urls:
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129           $md5->addpath($file,$binmode,1);
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131           my $digest = file_md5_hex($file,$binmode,1);
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133           $md5->addurl($url,1);
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135           url_md5_hex($url,1);
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137       It use's Encode's encode_utf8() function to do the encoding. So if you
138       do not have Encode (pre 5.7.3) this won't work :)
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140   NOFATALS
141       Instead of croaking it will return undef if you set NOFATALS to true.
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143       You can do this two ways:
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145           $Digest::MD5::File::NOFATALS = 1;
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147       or the -nofatals flag:
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149           use Digest::MD5::File qw(-nofatals);
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151           my $digest = file_md5_hex($file) or die "$file failed";
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153       $! is not set so its not really helpful if you die().
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AUTHOR

159       Daniel Muey, <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>
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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

162       Copyright 2005 by Daniel Muey
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164       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
165       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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