NAME

md5_import.pl - import directory md5 data into a database.

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_import.pl
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.15

SYNOPSIS

md5_import.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This script receives a directory, traverses it, and adds it's data to a given Md5 database. The resulting data base will the information about the hirarchy of the directory and checksum information on each file.

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

directory (type: dire, default: )

what directory to scan ?

verbose (type: bool, default: 1)

should I be noisy ?

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 movie stuff
0.01 MV more thumbnail code
0.02 MV more thumbnail stuff
0.03 MV thumbnail user interface
0.04 MV import tests
0.05 MV more thumbnail issues
0.06 MV md5 project
0.07 MV website construction
0.08 MV improve the movie db xml
0.09 MV web site automation
0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.11 MV move tests to modules
0.12 MV download scripts
0.13 MV teachers project
0.14 MV more pdmt stuff
0.15 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Digest::MD5(3), Meta::Projects::Md5::Node(3), Meta::Utils::File::Iter(3), Meta::Utils::File::Prop(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-do an update version of this script which only changes the information which is no longer needed.

-fix the problem that we always start with an ID of 1.

-do this script using the Class::DBI tools.