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NAME
rehash_documents - Regenerate all the hashes of all documents in the archive.
SYNOPSIS
rehash_documents archiveid [options] [documentid]
DESCRIPTION
This command regenerates the hash values for all documents. This will, by default, create an MD5 hash of all the files in the document in alphabetic order of their path. This value is then stored as a string of hexidecimal characters in the metadata for the document.
This value is automatically re-calculated if more files are uploaded or any files are removed.
It is useful as a quick reliable way of seeing if the document contents has changed. If you generate other formats of a document on-the-fly the MD5 can be useful as part of caching, or you may wish to pass the hashes to a third party to allow you to later verify that an item was in the archive since a given date.
- archiveid
- The ID of the eprint archive to rehash the documents of.
OPTIONS
- --help
- Print a brief help message and exit.
- --man
- Print the full manual page and then exit.
- --quiet
- Be vewwy vewwy quiet. This option will supress all output unless an error occurs.
- --verbose
- Explain in detail what is going on. May be repeated for greater effect.
- --version
- Output version information and exit.
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