drive md5sum --depth level must be incremented by 1 to have the desired effect

[jean-christophe-manciot]

Google Drive/Missions/Innovations# drive list
/Missions/Innovations/Proposal for a DNS Secured BGP.pdf
/Missions/Innovations/Proposal for a DNS Secured BGP.docx
/Missions/Innovations/Proposal to Change the EIGRP Feasibility Condition to allow faster convergence.docx
/Missions/Innovations/Proposal to Change the EIGRP Feasibility Condition to allow faster convergence.pdf

Google Drive/Missions/Innovations# drive md5sum
Google Drive/Missions/Innovations# 

[odeke-em]

Hello there @jean-christophe-manciot, thanks for the report.

Yes in deed, this is an annoying bug that results from an off-by one error in the Md5sum code.
For now you can control the depth by setting it to +1 the value you expect. By default it is 1 as with drive list. Please use -depth 2 to mirror drive list -depth 1.

[jean-christophe-manciot]

Hey @odeke-em , I've just discovered 2 other issues:

• the documentation talks about the -r flag, but it does not work as expected:

drive md5sum -r
flag provided but not defined: -r
Usage of md5sum:
  -depth int
        max traversal depth (default 1)
  -h    
  -hidden
        discover hidden paths
  -id
        stat by id instead of path
  -quiet
        if set, do not log anything but errors
  -recursive
        recursively discover folders

• the -recursive flag has an effect but does not start from where the call is made:

Google Drive/Missions# drive md5sum -recursive
f83efad87af0af2ac45e619f7024cf54  Certifications/Cisco/CCDA/Certificate/9927656_certificate.pdf
483360399fd61dac7fc55e84404bd275  Certifications/Cisco/CCDA/Certificate/CCDA Score Report.jpg
...

[odeke-em]

Thank you thank you @jean-christophe-manciot, let me mark this as a bug and for the next release.

[jean-christophe-manciot]

My mistake about the second point of my second post which is not an issue.
Actually, it can be used as another workaround to first post:

Google Drive/Missions/Innovations# drive md5sum -recursive
a3ec8d8644b63a9cfff50fd8f102dffa  Proposal for a DNS Secured BGP.docx
36215eb1940f422d6d289c8ec042f86f  Proposal for a DNS Secured BGP.pdf
6b5be4ad070dbe3f7c0085013743bb75  Proposal to Change the EIGRP Feasibility Condition to allow faster convergence.docx
8c78373e08b590ef0dcaa5ac8a38f270  Proposal to Change the EIGRP Feasibility Condition to allow faster convergence.pdf

[odeke-em]

No worries, thing though is -recursive will traverse as deep as it can so if there were levels in that directory, it would hit the last point

[jean-christophe-manciot]

Yes indeed, we cannot control the recursive depth with --depth n, that's another issue or potential for improvement. As a summary on this point:

• drive md5sum has no result/effect
• drive md5sum --depth n: n must be incremented by 1 to have the desired effect
• drive md5sum -r has no result/effect
• drive md5sum -recursive works fine but its depth cannot be controlled

[odeke-em]

@jean-christophe-manciot, please get the latest from master. Fixed by #832. Thank you for reporting it and for the patience!