[Techtalk] MD5Sum

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 01 November 2003 00:15, Hamster wrote:
> If I then want to check the integrity of test.html, I do the following
>
> md5sum -c test.html.md5sum
>
> You run the -c on the md5sum file. It know which file to check because its
> listed in that md5sum file.

Well, there you go.  You learn something new every day.

I've always just done a:
$ cat test.html.md5sum; md5sum test.html

and visually checked that the results match.  Shows I should read the man 
pages even for commands I think I understand.

Rasjid.

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