grunt-md5sum

Calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321 like MD5sum program

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-md5sum --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-md5sum');

grunt-md5sum task

Run this task with the grunt md5sum command.

Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.

Options

exclude_path

Type: Boolean

Exclude an absolute path

path_prefix

Type: Boolean

Append a path prefix

process

Type: Function(/* [ ...{ file, hex } ], [ ...files ] */)

This option as an advanced way to control the file contents that are created.

....

options: {
	process: function (content, files) {
		return content;
	}
}

....

Usage Example

module.exports = function (grunt) {
	grunt.config.init({
		md5sum: {
			build: {
				files: [
					{
						cwd : 'files/',
						src : ['**/*.{js,css}'],
						dest: 'sum.md5'
					}
				]
			}
		}
	});

	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-md5sum');
	grunt.registerTask('default', ['md5sum']);
};

This task supports all the file mapping format Grunt supports. Please read Globbing patterns and Building the files object dynamically for additional details.

Result

File structure

├── path
│   ├── file.js
│   ├── file.css

Output file

d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba248  path/file.js
d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249  path/file.css

Verify files with md5sum command

➜ md5sum -c sum.md5 

path/file.js: OK
path/file.css: OK

Tests

➜ grunt test 

Links

MD5sum user manual MD5sum wiki Microbrew MD5sum

Task submitted by Alexander Abashkin