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 > 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@mcphee ~ :) $ md5sum hosts.v2.dr > c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b hosts.v2.dr > jmcphee@mcphee ~ :) $ echo 'c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b > hosts.v2.dr' | md5sum -c > hosts.v2.dr: OK > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens > 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 > > 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 > > 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~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss