So well, I am making a pull request to Chris Titus Tech's Ultimate Windows Toolkit, and I wanna make something that checks if it's updated. But when I try running:
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fgclue/etcher/master/desktop.ini
It just says:
Get-FileHash: Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'https' does not exist. And I want to make it look something like this:
$hash = Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 URL
$chash = Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 win10debloat.ps1
if ($hash -ne $chash){
Write-Host "There is an update!"
Write-Host "Update?"
$Opt = Read-Host "Choice"
if (Opt -ne y){
exit
}
if (Opt -ne yn){
Start-Process "https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/win10script/"
Write-Host Please download the new version and close this windows.
}
}
CodePudding user response:
I'm not totally sure what actually you want to compare but here is how you can test if what you have is up to date without downloading anything, in this case I believe you need to use IO.MemoryStream
to get the hash of the remote file.
There is likely a better way to do it, also note, this code is using UTF8
Encoding with a BOM for getting the remote file bytes, you need to make sure the encoding is correct, i.e.: if you need UTF8 no BOM, use [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new().GetBytes(...)
instead.
$uri = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fgclue/etcher/master/desktop.ini'
$theHashIHave = Get-FileHash myfilehere.ext -Algorithm SHA256
try {
$content = Invoke-RestMethod $uri
$memstream = [System.IO.MemoryStream]::new(
[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($content)
)
$thisFileHash = Get-FileHash -InputStream $memstream -Algorithm SHA256
if($theHashIhave.Hash -eq $thisFileHash.Hash) {
"all good"
}
else {
"should update here"
}
}
finally {
$memstream.foreach('Dispose')
}