md5sum

[Michael Havens]

yeah.... it worked without the quotes.... oh I get it! You mean spaces in
the searched text. Thanks for the help gentlemen!@

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Harold <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Grep needs the text it is to search for as a quoted string.
>
> On second thought, that is the directions I found on the net, but as there
> are no spaces it it it may work without them.
> Test on your project and share.
>
> Harold
>
>
> On 03/12/2014 07:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>  md5sum linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
>  2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82  linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
> echo '2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82 linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso' |
> md5sum -c
>  md5sum: standard input: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
>
>  then I got Harold's message and that worked like a charm; although....
>
>
>    - md5sum FileName | grep "96b13dbbc9f3bc569ddad9745f64b9cdb43ea9ae"
>
> Why do you put the quotes in your text? I tried it w/o and with and it
> works both ways.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:45 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Either eyeball it, drop the md5sum in a file and -c it.  Or pull it into
>> stdin somehow and don't give -c an argument.
>>
>>  jmcphee at mcphee ~ :) $ md5sum hosts.v2.dr
>> c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b  hosts.v2.dr
>> jmcphee at mcphee ~ :) $ echo 'c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b
>>  hosts.v2.dr' | md5sum -c
>> hosts.v2.dr: OK
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks James. I think the cksum is correct. So with the 'c' flag it will
>>> check each file against the checksums in a text file. I remember doing that
>>> with linuxfromscratch. What if you only have one sum? What flag should I
>>> enter.... well, let's check 'man'. Man says check info and info doesn't
>>> tell me. Is there a way to check one file easily?
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:21 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The -c flag is for when the file you're putting is a text file with a
>>>> bunch of checksums in it.  Simply do not use -c.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  I downloaded a file and want to check it's sum to make sure it aI
>>>>> got a good D/L. I think I'm doing it wrong. I d/l the file and type in:
>>>>>
>>>>>  md5sum -c linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso
>>>>>
>>>>> and md5sum seems to open the iso and check the files in it. Here is the output:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.firedrive.com/file/DB5BBE6C682CA50D
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>  :-)~MIKE~(-:
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