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Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

md5sum

Synopsis

md5sum [option] [files]
md5sum [option] --check [file]

Compute or check 128-bit MD5 checksums. Used to verify that no change has been made to a file. With no files or - specified, read from standard input. The exit status is 0 for success and nonzero for failure.

Options

-b, --binary

Read the files in binary mode.

-c, --check

Check the MD5 sum and file information in the file argument (or standard input) against the corresponding files and verify that they are consistent. The input must have been generated by an earlier md5sum command.

--help

Print usage information and exit.

--status

Don’t generate output messages; the exit code indicates success or failure. Used only with --check.

--string=string

Compute the MD5 sum for the specified string. This option does not take a file argument. Put quotes around the string if it contains spaces.

-t, --text

Read files in text mode. The default.

--version

Print version information and exit.

-w, --warn

Warn about improperly formatted checksum lines. Used only with --check.

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