md5sum command syntax

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 06:26:28 UTC 2006


On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:00:15 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
[...]
> Does the foo.iso.md5 file contain a line with the name of foo.iso and the 
> md5sum?
> 
> If so you just go
> 
> md5sum -c foo.iso.md5
> 
> It picks up the names of each of the files in turn and checks the calculated 
> md5sum against the md5sum stored in the md5 file.
[...]

Aha!  Of course, since I downloaded the md5sum and the torrent from the
same place, I suppose I have to check the md5sum.  Anyhow, thanks :)




-Thufir




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