Hi, as i mentioned at the DBpedia meetup yesterday, it would be great if there were checksum files for the dump files (for example in each of the folders).
My use-case is mostly to be able to quickly check if i have the current version of files. It happened to me a couple of times already that i download files early in the release process, but then later found out that some were modified online. Not knowing what exactly was modified i ended up re-downloading everything. Another benefit of checksums would be easier spotting of files that are in multiple folders (core, en, links...). To generate the checksum file for all files in a single folder simply do this: md5sum * > MD5SUMS more secure but slower: sha256sum * > SHA256SUMS To verify them, one could then simply do a md5sum -c MD5SUMS or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS To initially put the checksums in all folders: #!/bin/bash set -e checksumbin=md5sum checksumfile=MD5SUMS shopt -s globstar for d in **/ ; do pushd "$d" find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 $checksumbin > $checksumfile popd done Cheers, Jörn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DBpedia-developers mailing list DBpedia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-developers
