Right-click MD5 file generation, with autocheck

In my previous post I mentioned using a shebang in MD5 files to make them autocheck. I created a quick nautilus script that will take selected files and create an md5 file with the shebang and append the hashes of the files to it. It will also make the MD5 file executable so that you can run that file to do the check.

The file gets placed in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and will take a restart of X.

#!/bin/bash

FILENAME=`gdialog --title "MD5 File" --inputbox "Enter the name of the MD5 file (without extension)" 100 200 2>&1`
if [ ${#FILENAME} -lt 1 ]; then
  FILENAME=temp_name.md5
else
  FILENAME=$FILENAME.md5
fi

echo "#!/usr/bin/md5sum -c" > $FILENAME
/usr/bin/md5sum $* >> $FILENAME
chmod +x $FILENAME

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