go-bagit

Early Go implementation of the bagit specification

Unsupported features

• Windows support
• creation of bags with multiple algorithm manifests
• fetch.txt / holey bags
• tag files other than bagit.txt and bag-info.txt

Building From Source

go build -o go-bagit main/main.go

Supported Algorithms

• md5
• sha1
• sha256
• sha512

Usage:

go-bagit [command] [flags]

Available Commands:

help        Help about any command
validate    validate a bag
create      create a bag
modify      modify a bag

Validate Command

Usage

go-bagit validate [flags]

Flags

--bag string        location of the bag to be validated, Mandatory
-h, --help          help for validate
--fast              test whether the bag directory has the expected payload specified in the checksum manifests without performing checksum validation to detect corruption
--completeness-only only test whether the bag directory has the number of files and total size specified in Payload-Oxum without performing checksum validation to detect corruption

Create Command

Usage

go-bagit create [flags]

Flags

--algorithm string   the algorithm used for checksums (default "md5")
-h, --help           help for create
--input-dir string   the directory to be bagged
--processes int      Use multiple processes to calculate checksums faster (default 1)

Modify Command

Usage

go-bagit modify [flags]

Flags

--add-to-bag    add a file to tag manifest
--bag string    bag to be validated
--file string   location of a file
-h, --help      help for modify