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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare two md5sum Post 302981047 by toscan on Tuesday 6th of September 2016 09:41:45 PM
Old 09-06-2016
Compare two md5sum

Hello,

First of all I want to apologize because i'm not a admin or coder and maybe all my efforts to write only this small script in my life would need one week full time reading man pages and forums but...
I don't have the money to offer me to get this time and the script I want to do seems very simple, what I want to say is my errors in the script are newbie ones...

I want to do this :

Code:
#!/bin/bash

$1=52f8422918c5347166dbb40c76f95e9c

checksum=`curl --silent httptheurliwanttocheck | md5sum`

$2=checksum

if [ "$1" = "$2" ]
then
    echo "nothing"
else
    echo "change"
fi

but it doesnt work.
after this works I want to this script to really do nothing if nothing changes and to send me an email if there is a changement. It takes me super long time to understand all these stuff and i'm now thinking about forgetting this and going every day to see if the page changed... This post is my last try.

If its insult to the unix community to ask this I'm sorry.
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags when displaying sample input, sample output, and code segments.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-06-2016 at 10:55 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
 

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MD5SUM(1)								FSF								 MD5SUM(1)

NAME
md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest SYNOPSIS
md5sum [OPTION] [FILE]... md5sum [OPTION] --check [FILE] DESCRIPTION
Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -b, --binary read files in binary mode (default on DOS/Windows) -c, --check check MD5 sums against given list -t, --text read files in text mode (default) The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums: --status don't output anything, status code shows success -w, --warn warn about improperly formated 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 type (`*' for binary, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE. AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper and Scott Miller. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. 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 md5sum should give you access to the complete manual. md5sum (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 MD5SUM(1)
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