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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS


            

              
              
use Digest::MD5::File qw(dir_md5_hex file_md5_hex url_md5_hex);
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->addpath('/path/to/file');
my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
my $digest = file_md5($file);
my $digest = file_md5_hex($file);
my $digest = file_md5_base64($file);
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->addurl('http://www.tmbg.com/tour.html');
my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
my $digest = url_md5($url);
my $digest = url_md5_hex($url);
my $digest = url_md5_base64($url);
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->adddir('/directory');
my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5($dir);    
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_hex($dir);    
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_base64($dir);

DESCRIPTION


            

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

EXPORT

None by default. You can export any file_* dir_*, or url_* function and anything Digest::MD5 can export.


            

              
              
use Digest::MD5::File qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64); # 3 Digest::MD5 functions
print md5_hex('abc123'), "\n";
print md5_base64('abc123'), "\n";

OBJECT METHODS

addpath()


            

              
              
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->addpath('/path/to/file.txt') 
    or die "file.txt is not where you said: $!";

or you can add multiple files by specifying an array ref of files:


            

              
              
$md5->addpath(\@files);

adddir()

addpath()s each file in a directory recursively. Follows the same rules as the dir_* functions.


            

              
              
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->adddir('/home/tmbg/') 
    or die "See warning above to see why I bailed: $!";

addurl()


            

              
              
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->addurl('http://www.tmbg.com/tour.html')
    or die "They Must Be not on tour";

file_* functions

Get the digest in variouse formats of $file. If file does not exist or is a directory it croaks (See NOFATALS for more info)


            

              
              
my $digest = file_md5($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";
my $digest = file_md5_hex($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";
my $digest = file_md5_base64($file) or warn "$file failed: $!";

dir_* functions

Returns a hashref whose keys are files relative to the given path and the values are the MD5 sum of the file or and empty string if a directory. It recurses through the entire depth of the directory. Symlinks to files are just addpath()d and symlinks to directories are followed.


            

              
              
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_hex($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";
my $dir_hashref = dir_md5_base64($dir) or warn "$dir failed: $!";

url_* functions

Get the digest in various formats of the content at $url (Including, if $url points to directory, the directory listing content). Returns undef if url fails (IE if LWP::UserAgent's $res->is_success is false)


            

              
              
my $digest = url_md5($url) or warn "$url failed"; 
my $digest = url_md5_hex($url) or warn "$url failed";
my $digest = url_md5_base64($url) or warn "$url failed";

SPECIAL SETTINGS

BINMODE

By default files are opened in binmode. If you do not want to do this you can unset it a variety of ways:


            

              
              
use Digest::MD5::File qw(-nobin);

or


            

              
              
$Digest::MD5::File::BINMODE = 0;

or at the function/method level by specifying its value as the second argument:


            

              
              
$md5->addpath($file,0);
my $digest = file_md5_hex($file,0);

UTF8

In some cases you may want to have your data utf8 encoded, you can do this the following ways:


            

              
              
use Digest::MD5::File qw(-utf8);

or


            

              
              
$Digest::MD5::File::UTF8 = 1;

or at the function/method level by specifying its value as the third argument for files and second for urls:


            

              
              
$md5->addpath($file,$binmode,1);
my $digest = file_md5_hex($file,$binmode,1);
$md5->addurl($url,1);
url_md5_hex($url,1);

It use's Encode's encode_utf8() function to do the encoding. So if you do not have Encode (pre 5.7.3) this won't work :)

NOFATALS

Instead of croaking it will return undef if you set NOFATALS to true.

You can do this two ways:


            

              
              
$Digest::MD5::File::NOFATALS = 1;

or the -nofatals flag:


            

              
              
use Digest::MD5::File qw(-nofatals);
my $digest = file_md5_hex($file) or die "$file failed";

$! is not set so its not really helpful if you die().

SEE ALSO

Digest::MD5, Encode, LWP::UserAgent

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey, http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005 by Daniel Muey

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.