Allen Brooker (AllenJB) » cli http://allenjb.me.uk Programming yesterday was about developers vs idiots. Now the developers are the idiots. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:45:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Package of the Day: cfv – Hash check your torrent downloads whereever they may be http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=190 http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=190#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:51:37 +0000 AllenJB http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=190 Today I discovered app-arch/cfv in the Gentoo tree. In addition to all the usual md5, sha1, etc formats, install the net-p2p/bittornado package (gtk use flag not required) and this utility can also handle hash checking against .torrent files, without the overhead of launching a full blown torrent client and then having to make sure said client can find all the files.

This is useful to me as I torrent on a remote server and download the files over SFTP/FTPS. Very occasionally something can go awry and I have the desire to hash check the files to see if it was an error with the original or something in my copy that perhaps occurred during transit.

With cfv, I can instead simply store the .torrent file alongside the files and then, when I want to check the files, run “cfv -f foo.torrent“

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