Comments on: How to check the MD5 Checksum of a file http://www.susegeek.com/utility/how-to-check-the-md5-checksum-of-a-file/ Tips,Tricks, Tutorials,How Tos and Troubleshooting suse linux Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: linux newbie http://www.susegeek.com/utility/how-to-check-the-md5-checksum-of-a-file/comment-page-1/#comment-3417 linux newbie Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:39:36 +0000 http://www.susegeek.com/?p=68#comment-3417 Is there a GUI based gnome tool where i can input the md5 or sha1 file and downloaded file and check the downloaded file
I am am not comfortable with command based tools

]]> By: Ole Hoppe http://www.susegeek.com/utility/how-to-check-the-md5-checksum-of-a-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 Ole Hoppe Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:31:34 +0000 http://www.susegeek.com/?p=68#comment-1643 In order to take the pain of comparing the key “manually”, wouldn’t it be easier to just use the following command, which pipes (“|”) the output of the 1st invocation of md5sum as input (“-”) to a 2nd invocation with the check option (“-c”):

linux-4518:~ # md5sum putty.exe | md5sum -c -
putty.exe: OK

Hope this helps.

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