icepatch2calc(1)

✨ icepatch2calc ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for icepatch2calc(1) from the General Commands Manual section — it's the IcePatch2 tool that compresses your files and calculates checksums, and it's genuinely so useful, iykyk 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

icepatch2calc — the IcePatch2 tool that compresses files and calculates checksums. that's the whole job. it does it well. periodt. 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

icepatch2calc [options] data_dir [file...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

IcePatch2 tool to compress files and calculate checksums.

ngl, the full documentation for icepatch2calc is available online at:

https://doc.zeroc.com/ice/3.7/ice-services/icepatch2/using-icepatch2calc

so if you want the deep lore, that's where it lives. 📚✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — displays a help message. classic. helpful king behavior. 🫶
• -v, --version — displays the Ice version. just flexing which Ice you're running, no big deal. ⭐
• -z, --compress — okay so normally, icepatch2calc scans the data directory and compresses a file only if no compressed version exists, or if the compressed version of a file has a modification time that predates that of the uncompressed version. but if you specify -z, the tool re-scans and recompresses the entire data directory, regardless of the time stamps on files. this option is useful if you suspect that time stamps in the data directory may be incorrect. it's giving "i don't trust these timestamps and i'm doing something about it" 😭🔥
• -Z, --no-compress — this option allows you to create a client-side checksum file. > do NOT use this option when creating the checksum file for the server — the option is for creating a client-side IcePatch2.sum file for updates of software on distribution media. read that again bestie, this one matters 🙈
• -i, --case-insensitive — this option disallows file names that differ only in case. (an error message will be printed if icepatch2calc encounters any files that differ in case only.) this is particularly useful for Unix servers with Windows clients, since Windows folds the case of file names, and therefore such files would override each other on the Windows client. the way Windows just folds case like that... 💀 anyway, use this and spare yourself the chaos.
• -V, --verbose — this option prints a progress message for each file that is compressed and for each checksum that is computed. main character energy for your terminal — every single file gets its moment on screen. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

icepatch2client(1), icepatch2server(1) — the rest of the IcePatch2 friend group, go say hi 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was icepatch2calc(1), living in the General Commands Manual, and it ate, no cap. go compress something and calculate a checksum, you've got this. bye ily 💖🦋🌸