[NTLUG:Discuss] iso md5sum question

[terry]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:21:16PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
> > All
> > I downloaded ubcd411.zip, unzip'd it to ubcd411.iso and ran md5sum
> > against it ...
> >     md5sum ubcd411.iso returned a number identical to the one posted on
> > the web site
> >     md4sum --check ubcd411.iso returned this message ...
>
> md5sum --check MD5SUM
>
> --check takes an argument of a file fulle of md5sum output lines to match,
> not the name of a file to test.
>
> > "md5sum: ubcd411.iso: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found"
> >
> > What am I looking at?  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able
> > to offer
> > Regards
> >
>

From:  info coreutils 'md5sum invocation'

`md5sum' computes a 128-bit checksum (or "fingerprint" or "message-digest")
for each specified FILE.




Fred James
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