Helps prepend your signature to files created by you. The signature is in form of your name and a timestamp of when the file was created. See screenshots at the end for how a signed file looks like.
Via the command line
- clone the repository here
- change your current directory to the
FileSignerdirectory then, - run
python main.py --dir_path=[path to directory or file to be signed] --author=[name of the file owner] - if specified
--dir_pathis a folder, it will sign all supported files in that folder. But if a file is specified, it will sign it if supported
Windows application
- Download the installer file here
- once the .exe file is installed, the
FileSignerapplication is automatically added to the registry file - To sign files in a folder, simply right click in the window of the current folder then click
Sign herein the context menu that pops up to sign all files in that folder
A file cannot be signed more than once. the scripts checks if a file has been signed before attempting to sign again
Command Line Application
- Using the application via the command line allows you to sign a single file and all files in a folder
- You have to specify the author name and directory path explicitly
Windows Application
- No need to specify the directory path or the author name. The name of the current user is automatically used to sign the file
- Only files in a directory can be signed. Single file cannnot be signed
{py,java,js,c,php,kt,go,pl,rb,xml,cofee,css,html,dart}
- To improve the windows application, look inside the app folder
- To improve the command line application, simply look at the
main.pyfile - To test your implementation, look inside the test folder and write test for your new implementation in the
test.pyfile Contribution ideas- implement an optimal algorithm to check if a file has already been signed before
- Allow the window application to support signing of a single file
- Add support for more file types
- Add support for files that doesn't support multi-line comments. e.g
R files
