Signing files

autosign can be used for signing files:

autosign signfile target [options]

Run the following command, for various options:

autosign --help

Removing sign from files

autosign provides a utility, remsign for removing sign from signed files:

remsign target [options]

Run the following command, for various options:

remsign --help

Checking a package

autosign provides a utility, listsign for collecting statistics:

listsign target [options]

Run the following command, for various options:

listsign --help

Signrc

Autosign utilizes signrc to sign, remove and list signed/un-signed files. The meaning of options is as follows.

• ext tells the utilities to look for files with only that extension

• Start defines the starting character sequence of a signature

• line defines the character sequence with whice every line(except start and end) should start of a valid signature

• end defines the ending character sequence of a signature

• blank (boolean) allows/forbids usage of blank line before start or after end of a signature

• allow defines a special regular expression. Matching to which a line can be allowed before the start of a signature.

Examples can be seen in examples directory. All the python files in this package have been signed using examples/templates/template1.txt using examples/signrc/signrc_py.

• –init option can be used for generating a very basic signrc

• All the utilities look for .signrc first in cwd, then in home directory by default.