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Chuck
Asked: 2010-11-27 05:43:29 +0800 CST

Generate SHA, MD5 and other checksums from properties menu (added "Digests" tab)

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I am trying to restore a function that I had on my last box. It added a tab in the properties menu of any file called "Digests". From there I could choose any/all of the hash formats, click hash and it would generate said checksums right there.

What I am trying to find out is either the name of the package or acquire the location of it's installation.

I have started a thread on UbuntuForums pertaining to this already

nautilus file-properties md5sum checksums

3 Answers

  1. There is nautilus-gtkhash to add a context menu to nautilus.

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    The standalone application is gtkhash.

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    Both can be installed with

    sudo apt install gtkhash

    or

    sudo apt install nautilus-gtkhash

    After installing, restart nautilus. You can close nautilus as follows. Merely closing all the nautilus windows is not enough.

    nautilus -q

    After restarting nautilus, there will now be a Digest tab in the Properties dialog box.

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  2. First, create a script to create a message with the md5 checksum. This will also handle paths with spaces. I saved this as /usr/local/bin/md5info. Make it executable.

    #!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n'
zenity --info --text "$(md5sum $1 | sed 's/ /\n/')"

    Install nautilus-actions, with which you can add bits to the context menu.

    sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

    Open System>Preferences>Nautilus Actions Configuration.

    Add a new action. On the Action tab, specify
    Context label: Digest
    You can add a tooltip and icon if you like.

    On the Command tab, under Command:
    Path: md5info
    Parameters: %d%f

    Save the changes. You might need to kill existing nautilus windows with nautilus -q the first time.

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  3. I found a better Nautilus Integrated Checksum generator. To install:

    1. Download HashTab Python Script and extract the ".py" file to ~/.nautilus/python-extensions (if the folder doesn't exist just make it)

    2. Now you need to install python-nautilus

      sudo apt-get install python-nautilus

    3. Last but not least we need to restart Nautilus

      nautilus -q && nautilus

    Now you just select any file and go to Properties-->Digests and you should get this: HashTab Nautilus Python Extension

    Tested On:

    • Ubuntu 11.04
    • Ubuntu 12.04
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