Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> writes:
>> I've been googling for examples of how to create a sha-2 sum of a file
>> in perl without success. What I'm looking for is something like:
>
> In general, you should not Google for Perl information, because Google tends
> to
> find outdated results. Instead, use MetaCPAN - http://metacpan.org/ with a
> fallback to DuckDuckGo - https://duckduckgo.com/ .
Oh, ok.
> You can write create_sha2_sum like that (untested):
>
> <CODE>
> sub create_sha2_sum
> {
> my ($filename) = @_;
>
> my $sha = Digest::SHA->new(512);
> $sha->addfile($filename);
>
> return $sha->hexdigest();
> }
> </CODE>
Cool, thank you, that looks very much like what I ended up with for my
test script :)
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