Including file hash in command line profiling

[timrdf]

I've managed to follow ./droid.sh --help to create a profile and then export it to CSV and XML:

bash-3.2$ ./droid.sh -a `pwd`/droid-command-line-6.4.jar -p my.droid
bash-3.2$ ./droid.sh -p my.droid -e "my.droid.csv"
bash-3.2$ grep PUID my.droid.csv 
"ID","PARENT_ID","URI","FILE_PATH","NAME","METHOD","STATUS","SIZE","TYPE","EXT","LAST_MODIFIED","EXTENSION_MISMATCH","HASH","FORMAT_COUNT","PUID","MIME_TYPE","FORMAT_NAME","FORMAT_VERSION"
bash-3.2$ ./droid.sh -p my.droid -n "Comprehensive breakdown" -r "my.droid.xml" -t "DROID Report XML"
bash-3.2$ grep '<Name>' my.droid.xml | grep droid
                        <Name>droid-command-line-6.4.jar</Name>

Unfortunately, the CSV's "HASH" column is empty and the XML's <GenerateHash>false</GenerateHash> element indicates that it also did not gather the file hash.

Is there a way to enable file hashing from the command line?

Thanks,
Tim

[paulyoung84]

Hi Tim,

I'm sorry for the late response. Unfortunately there is no way when creating the .droid file to specify hashing in the cmd. You can run the GUI and change the preferences there to the type of hash you want to generate, this change will alter the settings in the droid.properties file which will then be set for the cmd line as well.

Alternatively you could edit the droid.properties file directly, it is in the .droid6 folder in your user directory. For me this is C:\Users\pyoung.droid6\droid.properties. In this file if you change 'profile.generateHash' to 'true' this will turn hashing on, in 'profile.hashAlgorithm' you can specify the type of hash you want to generate it defaults to 'md5' but you can also do 'sha256' or 'sha1'.

Best,

Paul