Md5sum

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Details

In many distributions md5sum is included in the coreutils package, which is installed as a core component of the distribution. To confirm if you have the program and which version you can run "md5sum --version" in the command line.

Usage

To Use md5sum to check MD5 sums you can use either of the following:

• "md5sum -c {MD5 file}"
• "md5sum {file}" and compare output against the sum listed on the web

Additional information

For more information on options for using md5sum, run "man md5sum" or "md5sum --help" in the command line.