cfv-project/cfv

Bash cfv tool

jarppiko opened this issue · 4 comments

jarppiko commented

Hello,

I haven't been able to run the Python 2.7 based cfv for years on a stock Ubuntu due to some dependencies. As a long-time user of (Python-based) cfv, I decided to write a Bash script to do roughly the same thing and with less dependencies to "often" (once a decade) changing libs, modules. Just in case someone is interested.

Bash bcfv

"Tested and works on Linux"

lxp commented

Hi @jarppiko,

We have a working Python 3 variant of cfv since a few months (see #8 (comment)).
Since there are no known issues with it, I will release 3.0.0 soon, but you can already install it right now via pip.
I will compile an alternative tool list from the comments already discussed by other people and also add your tool to this list.

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lxp commented

Just one other thing, but please do not understand it the wrong way:
I think it is a good thing to have multiple tools around and thanks for developing it.
However, the name of your tool might be a bit misleading for long-term users of the good old cfv.
Did you think about giving your tool a slightly different name than the original cfv, for example bcfv or something like that?

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jarppiko commented

Hello @lxp,

First, my sincerest apologies. It did not occur to me that using the same program name could be felt bit offending. I will fix this right away. I am so sorry about this. And thank you for saving me time and comping up with a good name - bcsv, it will be.

bcfv - A Bash frontend to checksum programs (SHA, Blake3, MD5)

  • Rename repo to bcfv
  • Rename script to bcfv
lxp commented

Thank you! I have included your tool in the alternative tools list in the README.md.

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