On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 hantslug@??? wrote:
> I seem to remember that there is a command where if you put the md5sum of
> anyprog and the iso of anyprog in the same directory and switched to that
> directory you could get the command line to tell you whether the iso is all
> right. So far recently I have managed by computing the md5 sum and comparing
> the result and the supplied one manually.
>
> But I have now got an md5sum file that does not appear to be humanly readable.
> So I _need_ the command line to do it for me - but how??
I'm not 100% sure I understand your question, but will
md5sum -vc somefile.md5
where somefile.md5 contains a line something like
ed368f05371757064c5ec0ceca627ae5 somefile
do what you want?
Though if your md5 checksum file is not humanly readable this might not
help, I don't think I've ever seen one that isn't, but you might try
adding the "-b" (binary) option as well.
Andy
