May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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How to do it...
To compute the md5sum, use the following command:
$ md5sum filename 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 filename
The md5sum is a 32-character hexadecimal string as given.
We can redirect the checksum output to a file for later use, as follows:
$ md5sum filename > file_sum.md5