The md5sum utility isn't meant to check if 2 files are the same, but if a file has been changed (small change in the file leads to big change in the hash). But that doesn't mean it can't be used for that, you'll just have to trick a bit.
The output of a typical md5sum run looks something like this
Capture the first part in a variable (either through cut or awk). Do that for both files, and compare (eg with if)
Dear Guys ,
Am sorry i ask alot , but i do not know that much about perl , cgi , MD5 !
now i installed MD5 and Digest MD5 to my solaries 7 sparc machine .
when i execute the command :
$perl Makefile.PL
i get the follwoing error message ,, please tell me how to fix it , i need... (11 Replies)
Hi,
how can one find that which encryption algorithm the system is using for keeping the user password in the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file.
Is it
1: Hashing ( which considers only first 5 letters of password)
2: MD5 (Which allows arbitry length passwords)
Thanks,
~amit (0 Replies)
I think it's a problem of gtar, but i'm note sure...
I use gtar to create an archive from a directory
then i use md5 to get an md5 string for the archive
bzip2 to compress the archive
and md5 again for the compressed archive.
I send the file to my backup machine.
When i download the... (1 Reply)
I am a newbie in programming in Perl.
My problem is that this unix command is embedded in Perl but it gives an empty output. Here's the code:
$temp = `md5 "../Directory String/..." | awk {'print $NF'} > "../Directory/file.txt"`;
The output file should contain the md5 hash value of the... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am looking to basically creating md5sum files for all iso files in a directory and archive the resulting md5 files into a single archive in that very same directory.
I worked out a clumsy solution such as:
#find files for which md5sum are to be created and store the... (1 Reply)
Hi, I tried to write script, which would be able to generate MD5 sums into txt file.. But It won't work.. (I've been trying to fix that over 4 hours, but nothing helps)
Here it is
#!/bin/bash
FILE="nothing1"
POST="nothing2"
I=1
while
do
FILE=`ls -ltR | grep "^-" | tr -s "... (1 Reply)
Hello good people,
I came across md5 checksum. Can anyone please explain to me what it does and if possible an example of how to use it?
Thank you very much (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I have about MD5 checksum so many times but I can't figure out how to use it. Can someone please show me how to perform an MD5 checksum?
Thanks a lot guys. (1 Reply)
I have about 1500 rows (encoded b64(b64(md5($pass))) algorythm) in a file.
I would like reverse the b64 into md5 hash format.
How could I do that from command line? So I need only the correct md5 hash formats.
These row format:
4G5qc2WQzGES6QkWAUgl5w
P9tKxonBOg3ymr8vOBLnDA... (1 Reply)
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md5sum
MD5SUM(1) User Commands MD5SUM(1)NAME
md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
SYNOPSIS
md5sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
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
--tag create a BSD-style checksum
-t, --text
read in text mode (default)
Note: There is no difference between binary and text mode option on GNU system.
The following four options are useful only when verifying checksums:
--quiet
don't print OK for each successfully verified file
--status
don't output anything, status code shows success
--strict
exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines
-w, --warn
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. When checking, the input should be a former output of this program. The default mode is
to print a line with checksum, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary, space for text), and name for each FILE.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report md5sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
BUGS
The MD5 algorithm should not be used any more for security related purposes. Instead, better use an SHA-2 algorithm, implemented in the
programs sha224sum(1), sha256sum(1), sha384sum(1), sha512sum(1)AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for md5sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and md5sum programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'md5sum invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 MD5SUM(1)