md5 newbie question

[Marty Landman]

At 02:48 PM 12/6/2003, Chris Pressey wrote:

>The "-s 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c" part of your command is
>requesting an md5 hash of the literal string of characters
>"466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c".
>
>That's almost certainly not what you want, and will only serve to confuse.

Ah, but you've now unconfused me.

>   Try running just this instead:
>
>   md5 /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz

What I want to do is avoid having to verify a match by eye. Here's what I 
just tried:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FreeB md5 httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz > thing1 ; echo 
466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c > thing2 ; echo difference is `diff thing1 
thing2` ; rm thing1 thing2
difference is 1c1 < MD5 (httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz) = 
466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c --- > 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c
FreeB md5 httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz > thing1 ; echo 
466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c > thing2
FreeB more thing1

MD5 (httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz) = 466c63bb71b710d20a5c353df8c1a19c
FreeB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Seems the problem here is that the md5 cmd's output is not simply the 
result string but a description of the cmd together with the result. If I 
need to do much of this guess a little pgm's called for.


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