Make-prefetch now supports both python 2 and 3

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The make-prefetch tool is a python script that generates prefetch action script commands from files or URLs. Previously on BigFix it only supported Python 2, but now it supports Python 2 and Python 3.

For example, the script can be used to create a prefetch statement for this picture of hodor:

$ make-prefetch.py --name hodor.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YAUeUOG.jpg

Outputs:

prefetch hodor.jpg sha1:ce842e0af799f2ba476511c8fbfdc3bf89612dd0 size:57656 http://i.imgur.com/YAUeUOG.jpg sha256:74f69205a016a3896290eae03627e15e8dfeba812a631b5e0afca140722a322b

Here’s the complete usage:

make-prefetch.py [options] <file or url>

Create a prefetch statement for BigFix ActionScript

Options:
  -a, --algorithm ALGORITHM    Hash algorithm to use (all, sha1, sha256)
                               default: all
  -n, --name NAME              The name to use for the file
                               default: the name of the file
  -u, --url URL                The url to use for the file
                               default: the url of the file
  -o, --output OUTPUT          Output format (prefetch, davis, value)
                               default: prefetch
  -h, --help                   Print this help message and exit

Examples:
  Create a pretch statement from a URL

    make-prefetch.py http://example.com/hello.txt

  Create a prefetch statement from a file

    make-prefetch.py hello.txt

  Create a 9.0 style prefetch statement

    make-prefetch.py --algorithm sha1 hello.txt

  Create a 7.2 style prefetch statement

    make-prefetch.py --algorithm sha1 --output davis hello.txt
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