Command Line Options

The full command with options is :

manifest [-h] [-v, --verbose {0,1,2,3}]
                [-r,--root ROOT]
                [-o,--out REPORT-OUT]
                [-a,--hash {sha224,md5,sha1,sha256,sha384,sha512}]
                [-o, --out REPORT-OUT]
                [-f,--manifest MANIFEST]
                [-E, --resetExtensions] [-e EXTENSION]
                [-D, --resetDirectories] [-d DIRECTORY]
                [-t/-T]
                [-k/-K]

        create

        check   [-m/-M ]
                [-i/-I ]
                [-e/-E ]
                [-g/-G ]
                [-s, --summary]

General options for all commands

-h, --help :            Show the full help page

-v, --verbose :         The verbose reporting level from 0 or 1. The default is 1.
                        Level 0 : No output, except execution error messages.
                        Level 1 : Full output.

-a, --hash HASH         Choose an alternative hash algorithm. Can be one of
                        sha224, md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512 - the default is sha224.
                        On a standard default installation the above algorithms will be
                        available. Some packages - such as OpenSSL will make more
                        algorithms available - check the help page of the manifest suite
                        on your installation to check what is available locally.

-f,--manifest MANIFEST  The Manifest file to create or to check against
                        This option will create or use the manifest file with the specified
                        name, rather than the default ``manifest.txt``

-r, --root ROOT         The root directory to create the manifest from, or check the manifest against.

-E,--clearExtensions    Clears the internal manifest_write of file extensions.
                        Using this option without at least one corresponding
                        ``-e EXTENSION`` option will mean that no files will be
                        included in the manifest.

-e EXTENSION :          Add a file extension to the internal manifest_write.
                        The EXTENSION must start with a dot ``.`` character otherwise
                        an error will be raised.

-D, --clearDirectories  Clears the internal manifest_write of ignored Directories.
                        Using this option without at least on corresponding
                        ``-d DIRECTORY`` option will mean that all top level directories
                        will be included in the manifest.

-d DIRECTORY :          Add a directory to the internal manifest_write of ignored top level directories.
                        It is not an error if the name given does not exist

Output Flags
    -t/-T               Acts as a flag to enable or disable counting and reporting of file extensions.
    -k/-K               Acts as a flag to enable or disable counting and reporting of skipped files.

    For these flags the lowercase option enables the report, and an uppercase option disables the report.

General options for the check command - these must occur after the check command.

Exception reporting flags

    -m/-M                Whether or not to report on mismatched files
    -i/-I                Whether or not to report on missing files
    -x/-X                Whether or not to report on record_extra files

    For these flags the lowercase option enables the report, and an uppercase option disables the report.
    If a particular exception type is disabled then any occurrence of this type of exception will not be reported
    and the command will not exit with a failure status. By default all of these reports are enabled.

Other options

    -g/-G               Enables/disables grouping of exception reports files. If grouping is
                        disabled (using -G) then exceptions are reported immediately they are found,