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Hi all. This is an update on my script extracting CRC32 checksum from the 7z commandline tool. The output should be similar to how the md5sum tool outputs, the checksum and the file name/path.

The initial version of this script was actually broken. It would not output all files if a directory was included (wrong counting of files through argument number). Also filenames that contained a space would only output the first part until the space character. All of this rookie mistakes are solved. Plus there is a progress bar showing what files are processed at the moment, instead showing a blank screen until command is finished. This is useful if there are a lot of files or some big files to process.

Yes, I'm aware there are other ways to accomplish this task. I would be happy to see your solution too. And if you encounter a problem, please report.

crc32sum:

(Note: Beehaw does not like the "less than" character and breaks the post completley. So replace the line cat %%EOF with or copy it from the Github Gist link below:)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ "${#}" -eq 0 ]] || [[ "${1}" == '-h' ]]; then
    self="${0##*/}"
    cat %%EOF
usage: ${self} files...

Calculate CRC32 for each file.

positional arguments:
  file or dir       one or multiple file names or paths, if this is a directory
                    then traverse it recursively to find all files
EOF
    exit 0
fi

7z h -bsp2 -- "${@}" |
    \grep -v -E '^[ \t]+.*/' |
    \sed -n -e '/^-------- -------------  ------------$/,$p' |
    \sed '1d' |
    \grep --before-context "9999999" '^-------- -------------  ------------$' |
    \head -n -1 |
    \awk '$2=""; {print $0}'

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

crc32 is very common amongst emulation and roms. While often they provide md5sum too, crc32 is a bit faster on bulk.