Force Download & Hash

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@lostheli

Hashsum is the logical choice but does not appear to have a force download option

Indeed it doesn't... It could potentially though

@lostheli

Check does have a force download option but does not save the hash it computes. It also does not appear to download the files and hash them when the comparison directory is empty (the machine running this does not have access to the originals)

Check doesn't compute the hash, it compares the files byte by byte.

@lostheli

Rclone cat and pipe to a hash utility works for a single file but does not work for multiple files. I have many files and would not want to call rclone separately for each

OK

@lostheli

This seems like it should be simple because check is doing what I want to do internally and hashsum has the output format that I'm looking for. Am I missing something simple like a global force flag for hashsum or an output option for check that would allow me to do this?

I think this would need a --download option implemented for hashsum (and friends md5sum and sha1sum).

Is this something you'd like to work on?