rotten_bites 1.0.0

Description:

rotten bites 1.0.0

A small utility for checking for bit
rot. This project is
heavily influenced by chkbit and
bitrot. Both projects had things I
liked about them and other things that I didn’t. I took what I liked and
made something myself.
The focus of Rotten Bites is scalability and speed. To achieve this,
small files (.bit_check) are placed in every directory. I know, no
one wants a “bunch of turdy files sprinkled all over your hard
drive”, but in my opinion it is the best
way to allow for flexibility (folders can be moved around without any
problem because all paths are relative to that directory) and
scalability (having one central database with all files stored does not
scale well).
There are two components to Rotten Bites: the CLI and library. I
designed Rotten Bites to be callback based so it makes it easy to
extend. See the CLI (rotten_bites/__main__.py) and rot_check.py,
for examples.

Install
pip install rotten_bites


Usage
Usage: rotten_bites [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY

Given a directory, rotten bites calculates the sha1 hash of every file and
stores it in .bit_check files. Once stored, subsequent checks will see if
the hash has changed, detecting bit rot.

Status codes:

'E' error, sha1 mismatch

'a' add to index

'u' update sha1

' ' not modified (shown only with verbose)

'?' could not read file (permission denied or file no longer
exists)

Options:
--delete Delete all .bit_check files.
-n, --dry-run Run without making any changes. No .bit_check files
are created or updated
--ignore-list FILENAME List of files and folders to ignore. Similar syntax
to .gitignore files. "-" can be used to read from
stdin.
-q, --quiet Turn off all output except for hash errors.
-v, --verbose Display all files that are scanned, even if they
haven't changed
--verify Verify hashes without updating.
--help Show this message and exit.