Make Prefetch

This is a tool to generate prefetch statements for downloads in BigFix ActionScript.

Parameters

Generate a prefetch for a local file:

Get-Prefetch.ps1 -Path -Name

Generate a prefetch for a file from a web server (http://)

Get-Prefetch.ps1 -URL -Name

Using a URL argument

Suppose you want to create a prefetch statement to download this picture of Hodor.

To download it as hodor.jpg, you can use the -name argument:

& .\get-prefetch -name hodor.jpg -url http://i.imgur.com/YAUeUOG.jpg

This will output the prefetch statement as hodor.jpg on the client.

prefetch hodor.jpg sha1:ce842e0af799f2ba476511c8fbfdc3bf89612dd0 size:57656 http://i.imgur.com/YAUeUOG.jpg sha256:74f69205a016a3896290eae03627e15e8dfeba812a631b5e0afca140722a322b

Using a file argument

Suppose you have already downloaded this picture of Hodor and you want to create a prefetch statement for it.

To do this, run & .\get-prefetch on the file to generate a prefetch statement:

& .\get-prefetch -Path hodor.jpg -name hodor.jpg

This will output a prefetch statement with http://REPLACEME as the URL:

prefetch hodor.jpg sha1:ce842e0af799f2ba476511c8fbfdc3bf89612dd0 size:57656 http://REPLACEME sha256:74f69205a016a3896290eae03627e15e8dfeba812a631b5e0afca140722a322b