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 ." <gregr...@yahoo.com> 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. > > >
