how do I verify that the the checksum is correct?

[Alex Miua]

Thank you for your reply. Will do.

Alex.
--- "Jacques B." <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> The -c option is the easiest in my opinion as it
> uses the features of
> the checksum application.
> 
> If you want to do it otherwise, you could do
> something like:
> 
> test [ "`sha1sum cd.iso`" = "`cat checksumfile.txt`"
> ] && echo
> "matches" || "echo "no match"
> where checksumfile.txt is the one provided by the
> web site.
> 
> I'm not in my Linux partition right now so I can't
> check the syntax to
> be exactly certain that is right.  If it's off I'm
> sure someone can
> correct it.  But ultimately why do that when you can
> simply use the -c
> option?
> 
> Alternatively you could do
> sha1sum cd.iso >> checksumfile.txt
> where "checksumfile.txt" is the one provided by the
> web site.
> Then you can cat the file and easily compare the two
> because they will
> be one under the other so at a glance easy to see if
> they match or
> not.
> 
> Jacques B.
> 
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