tldr/pages/common/md5sum.md

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md5sum

Calculate MD5 cryptographic checksums. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/md5sum-invocation.html.

  • Calculate the MD5 checksum for a file:

md5sum {{filename1}}

  • Calculate MD5 checksums for multiple files:

md5sum {{filename1}} {{filename2}}

  • Read a file of MD5SUMs and verify all files have matching checksums:

md5sum -c {{filename.md5}}

  • Calculate a MD5 checksum from the standard input:

echo "{{text}}" | md5sum