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Proposed by @nkrabben

Right now it's possible to make a bagit-style manifest, but checksumthing won't actually renest files in a "data" folder, or create the other manifests. Is this something that should be added?

Should we not add in the README.md how to update this tool? cc @henryborchers

Particularly if users are pulling checksums together into a single file, it would be useful to have the option to remove the old sidecars at the same time.

Things like PRE and POST are showing up in the help menu in between text that we want to display. We need to take them out.

Right now the user can place all kinds of invalid arguments in the script. We need some kind of validation as well as appropriate error messages.

Help menu needs a more clear description of arguments, ideally with examples.

A manifest should be able to created as a CSV

I cloned the repo and then ran python setup.py install. Then I tried to run checksumthing -h. The script crashed and I got this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/checksumthing", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('Checksumthing==0.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'checksumthing')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 542, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2569, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2229, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2235, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/local/bin/checksumthing.py", line 4, in <module>
    __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('Checksumthing==0.0.1', 'checksumthing.py')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 719, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1504, in run_script
    exec(code, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Checksumthing-0.0.1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/checksumthing.py", line 7, in <module>
    from Checksumthing import manifest_formats
ImportError: cannot import name manifest_formats

Ran this commend checksumthing -i Sample_Files/ -ie .md5 -t md5 -c upper -r -pre '#######' -post '*{relativepath}' -o Sample_Files/checksum_manifest.txt

Text file doesn't have line breaks on Windows Notepad. Suspect "\n" doesn't work on Windows.

Here are two examples that we can add using the sample data:

python checksumthing.py -i Sample_Files/ -ie .md5 -t md5 -c upper -r -pre '#######' -post '*{relativepath}'

python checksumthing.py -i Sample_Files/ -ie .md5 -t md5 -c upper -r -pre '#######' -post '*{relativepath}' -o Sample_Files/checksum_manifest.txt

For the places before and after the checksum value, the user should have the option to use tabs instead of spaces.