[SATLUG] MD5Sum

J. Patrick Lanigan patl at satx.rr.com
Mon Aug 5 00:47:01 CDT 2002


On Sunday 04 August 2002 11:34 pm, John Champion said unto the masses:
> Hi,
> Dumb question for some I know...but I'm downloading the RH 7.3 images from
> the uthscsa ftp server and I want to make sure I do this right.
>
> How do I use the MD5Sum?

# md5sum <filename>

This will spit out the checksum and the name of the file. Compare that to 
those given with the distro.

"man md5sum" for more detailed info...

Have fun,
-- 
 J. Patrick Lanigan
 Debian Linux (Sid) - 2.4.18-0513 on vagabond
 23:49:08 up 11:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.29, 0.94, 1.06



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