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# 1  
Old 03-27-2011
Script to compare md5
From couple of hours i try to do a script to compare file MD5.
Help would be very appreciated Smilie

First i read the md5 stored into a text file (no problem):
Code:
 md5=`grep -P "^[a-fA-F0-9]{32}" $file`

then i want to calculate the checksum and store it :
Code:
cmd5=`md5sum licence.gvcl`

then problems arrives, i want to compare both:
Code:
 if [[ $md5 == $cmd5 ]]
           then
               echo cool md5 is ok
           else
              echo FAIL MD5
              echo $md5
              echo $rmd5
 
           fi

I'm lost because on screen i see this:
Quote:
FAIL MD5
ab4f63f9ac65152575886860dde480a1 myfile.txt
ab4f63f9ac65152575886860dde480a1 myfile.txt
looks like md5 or cmd5 is not a string?
how to fix it please?
# 2  
Old 03-28-2011
It might be a difference in whitespaces. You could try double quoting ("$cmd") the variables. But what's wrong with using md5sum -c <file_with_md5_sums>?
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# 3  
Old 03-29-2011
thank you for your answer, it works fine with quotes (i still very confused with quotes).

btw :-c option is refused on my unix box (a qnap NAS).

i used to get the file path from a text file but i never succeed to do the checksum after that (tried so many syntaxes):
Quote:
where sums.txt contains lines like:
658f410acab9a2d08514af4957cf7422 ./archives/file1.zip
Code:
   fileLic=`grep -P -o "[^ ]+\.zip(\r)?(\n)?$" ./sums.txt
#fileLic contains : ./archives/file1.zip
cmd5=`md5sum $fileLic`
#or cmd5=md5sum `$fileLic`
#or cmd5=$"md5sum $fileLic"

always return an "MD5 ERROR ves/file1.zip file doesn't exists"
note that prompted path is trunkated, i don't understand why probably an other quote problem...
# 4  
Old 03-29-2011
if is more wasy to do this in perl in my opinion .. there are a lot of modules that can do this.
http://search.cpan.org/~delta/Digest...st/Perl/MD5.pm
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# 5  
Old 03-29-2011
why not use -c option?
Quote:
# md5sum --help
Usage: md5sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

-b, --binary read in binary mode
-c, --check read MD5 sums from the FILEs and check them
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# 6  
Old 04-11-2011
Altho it's not md5, you can use cmp utility to compare 2 files and test return.

If files are different it will return 1, otherwise it will be 0
Code:
root@glitch:/myfiles# cat file*
1
2
1
root@glitch:/myfiles# cmp file1 file2
file1 file2 differ: byte 1, line 1
root@glitch:/myfiles# echo $?
1
root@glitch:/myfiles# cmp file1 file3
root@glitch:/myfiles# echo $?
0

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