mrmendelli/md5sum

Custom fork of md5sum.

md5 CLI in Rust

The following is just a quick and dirty MD5 proof of concept CLI tool in Rust.

Usage

md5sum 0.1.0  Usage: md5sum --value <VALUE> Options:
  -v, --value <VALUE>  The value you'd like to convert to an MD5 hash
  -h, --help           Print help information
  -V, --version        Print version information`

Running the app

You can run the proof of concept by doing the following:

cargo run -- --value techygrrrl

You can put any value in place of techygrrrl.

You should see the following output:

md5("techygrrrl") = 49a7d6fdbc5aa48c3f0b3b674693e2dc

If you do not pass the input value properly, you will see the following error:

error: The following required arguments were not provided:
  --value <VALUE>

Usage: md5sum --value <VALUE>

For more information try '--help'

Building

If you'd like to build a release binary you can run the following command:

cargo build --release

Then you can execute the release build:

./target/release/md5sum --value techygrrrl

If you'd like to use this utility locally, you can create an alias for it in your .zshrc or .bash_profile file:

alias md5sum="<code-directory>/md5sum/target/release/md5sum --value "

Source your .zshrc or .bash_profile and then use it like this:

md5sum techygrrrl
# md5("techygrrrl") = 49a7d6fdbc5aa48c3f0b3b674693e2dc

Dependencies

Crate	Purpose
md5	Generates the MD5 hex digest from the input
clap	Parses command line arguments, provides logging output for CLI usage.