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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2010-01-01 02:13:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2010-01-01 02:13:17 +0200 |
| commit | 01c25cc823a459196524cd7202c7c3c567ccddd8 (patch) | |
| tree | 382eada5e35c3e20d2f4f18895a6a2fa2f4d870d | |
| download | summain-01c25cc823a459196524cd7202c7c3c567ccddd8.tar.gz | |
Wrote manual page, first draft.
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diff --git a/summain.1 b/summain.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c37311 --- /dev/null +++ b/summain.1 @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.TH SUMMAIN 1 +.SH NAME +summain \- gather file checksums and metadata +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B summain +.RI [ file ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B summain +gathers metadata about files, +and computes their checksums. +It is inteded to create a +.I manifest +of the files. +The manifest can be used to see if something has changed: +a new manfest can be created and compared with the old one with +.BR diff (1). +.PP +The manifest looks like this: +.IP +.nf +Name: foo/bar/foobar +Sha-1: 1234123413241324 +Mtime: 2010-01-01 02:08:00 +0200 +Mode: 1755 +.fi +.PP +The filename is URL-encoded to ensure it is purely ASCII. +Mode is in octal. +.PP +Only some inode fields are included. +It does not make sense to compare, for example, the access time, +so that is not included. +.PP +Directories named on the command line will be recursed automatically. |