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@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@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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