NAME

digestion.pl - A perl script to create a digest over one or more fields in a tab delimited list

SYNOPSIS

digestion.pl [ -h ] [ -i [input file] ] [ -o [output file] ] [ -f [field1;field2;...;fieldn] ] [ -s [field1;field2;...;fieldn] ]

DESCRIPTION

digestion.pl iterates over a tab delimited list and creates a MD5 digest over arbitrary fields in that list. It's output is by default the same list only with the MD5 digest appended to the end of the line, separated by a tab. Arbitrary fields in the input can be omitted from the output using the -d option. The purpose of this script is generating MD5 digests suitable for newusers.pl(8) and hunter-seeker.pl(8).

-i [input file]

Read input from input file or stdin if "-".

-o [output file]

Write output to output file or stdout if "-".

-f [field1;field2;...;fieldn]

Create digest over these fields in the input file. Defaults to fields 1 and 3 (counting from zero).

-d [field1;field2;...;fieldn]

Omit these fields in output.

FILES

        list_raw        Default input filename
        list_digested   Default output filename

SEE ALSO

newusers.pl(8), hunter-seeker.pl(8), reaper.pl(8), userneu(8)

AUTHOR

 Johannes Grassler <johannes.grassler@freenet.de>