Comments on: Verifying SHA1 checksums on downloads http://aralbalkan.com/1342 Aral on Flash, SWX, Flex, ActionScript, and life. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Aral http://aralbalkan.com/1342#comment-145206 Aral Mon, 12 May 2008 07:47:10 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1342#comment-145206 Great tips, Tom, thanks! :) Great tips, Tom, thanks! :)

]]> By: Tom Morris http://aralbalkan.com/1342#comment-144925 Tom Morris Sun, 11 May 2008 12:13:18 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/1342#comment-144925 You could tie it in with pbpaste, the OS X command that returns the content of the pasteboard (or clipboard for recovering Windows users). If you substitute the $2 for $(pbpaste) then it'll just use the contents of your pastebin instead - even less work. You could also modify the script (perhaps using a more full-featured scripting language like Ruby or Perl) to check both the second shell argument and the pasteboard and order their use. One could also do some AppleScript or cron jobbing to check one's Downloads folder for newly downloaded files, check them against the pasteboard and do something like send a growl notification with the result of the SHA-1 check. You could tie it in with pbpaste, the OS X command that returns the content of the pasteboard (or clipboard for recovering Windows users). If you substitute the $2 for $(pbpaste) then it’ll just use the contents of your pastebin instead - even less work.

You could also modify the script (perhaps using a more full-featured scripting language like Ruby or Perl) to check both the second shell argument and the pasteboard and order their use. One could also do some AppleScript or cron jobbing to check one’s Downloads folder for newly downloaded files, check them against the pasteboard and do something like send a growl notification with the result of the SHA-1 check.

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