Questions tagged [md5sum]
md5sum is a computer program that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.
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The MD5 hash value is different from Bash and PHP [duplicate]
I tried to generate the MD5 sum (using md5sum) of a string, "hello". I tried out different methods as the md5sum tool in Linux, PHP's MD5() function as well as various online text to md5sum ...
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What is the value of MD5 checksums if the MD5 hash itself could potentially also have been manipulated?
Downloads on websites sometimes have an MD5 checksum, allowing people to confirm the integrity of the file. I have heard this is to allow not only corrupted files to be instantly identified before ...
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How accurate is `md5sum`?
When using md5sum to verify the integrity of a file, how accurate is the process?
Does a verified MD5 mean that EVERY bit is exactly the same, or is there a threshold that must be broken before ...
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How can I generate an MD5 sum for a folder on Windows?
There are several posts about generating MD5 sums for files and/or folders on various Windows platforms. However, none of these worked for me. I tried:
Windows CertUtil: CertUtil -hashfile myFileName ...
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Find all duplicate files by MD5 hash
I'm trying to find all duplicate files (based on MD5 hash) and ordered by file size. So far I have this:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I "{}" sh -c 'md5sum "{}" | cut -f1 -d " " | tr "\n" " "; ...
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List files bigger than specified size, then create md5sum or sha256sum of them
I'd like to know how to create a list with md5sums from files in the current directory - files that are over a specified size. I can do one or the other, but I don't know how to combine the two.
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Why does tar with -z option create archive with different hash everytime
Can you tell me why
tar czf archive.tar dir
creates archive with different hash everytime (I check with 'md5sum')
Without compression parameter -z or with parameter -j instead all works fine.
Thanks
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Compute md5sum of every 1MB part of stream from pipe
I want to do checksumming of large files and stream in unix/linux, and I want get many checksums from every large part of file/stream, every 1 MB or every 10MB.
For example, I have disk image, ...
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Md5 checksum different after gunzip and gzip
I accidentally deleted a handful of gzipped files from a folder. Thankfully, I had uncompressed them in a different location, and am in the process of restoring them. I had the md5 checksums for the ...
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Recursively md5 files compared to stored .md5 file
What is the best way to MD5 3200 files in 167 directories using md5sum where all hashes are compared to a .md5 file that is already created in each directory holding the files to be check summed. I ...
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Finding a file by md5sum
Given the md5sum of a file, I want to know if anywhere else in the directory tree is another file with the same md5sum (but maybe under a different name). How can I do that in bash?
P.S.: To ...
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How to calculate hash value of a directory, is it possible?
I need to send someone a 10GB file that has inside several thousands of files.
I know that in Ubuntu you can use the next command in the terminal: md5sum <directory_name> and this returns a hash....
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Batch file to output MD5 hash to a text file starting at a specific directory
@echo off
set "src_dir=C:\Users\\Documents\projects\Config\ABC"
set OUTFILE="C:\Users\Documents\Scriptoutput.txt"
echo %OUTFILE%
pushd %cd%
cd %src_dir%
for /r %%f in (*) do (
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Why does my md5sum hash not match other md5s?
So for a school assignment we are working with hashes. However I've encountered a problem where my file.txt containing:
test hashes
test hashes
without quotes doesn't match the hash from HashCalc (...
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Rename files by md5 checksum [closed]
What program can I use to rename files with their calculated md5 checksums?
GUI or CLI Programs for Linux or Windows or scripts for DOS or the Linux terminal.
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Batch script - calculating md5 hashes for all files in c: drive
I'm trying to figure out how to setup specific location where I want to start calculating hashes ? Let's say I would like to start calculating md5 hashes for all files on c:\ drive and files included ...
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Quickly Maintain Database of sha256sums? [closed]
I have many different disks (primarily harddisks) storing various files. I want to know that they are all backed up in some form. Given that I have terabytes of files somehow (backups of backups ...
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When tar the same two packages，its md5 are not same
There are two packages with a file in it.
[root@build-production test]# ll
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 19 9月 18 07:58 pack1
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 19 9月 18 07:58 pack2
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How can I compute an md5sum on Macintosh OSX Lion?
How can I compute an md5sum on Macintosh OSX Lion? Is it built in to the OS or do I need to download an application?
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How to tell what files are different on two servers
here we can see that md5sums of this two directories are different, how to tell if the folder structures or some certain files are the reason of this difference?
[skynet]~> ssh evn-web04 'find /www/...
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MD5 hash of original Windows 8 pro iso file
What is the MD5 hash of the original Win 8 Professional ISO (upgrade version)? I downloaded the file over multiple download sessions, and want to make sure that the file is not corrupted.
Does the ...
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How to generate MD5 hash with a salt in command line?
password: rose
salt: jack123
MD5 hash value: bf57b6634a951e3ee7ff2bbfb6206ec0
The above-given output was generated on a website (http://md5.my-addr.com/md5_salted_hash-md5_salt_hash_generator_tool.php)...
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With a time sorted List, How to insert a checksum for each file?
Time stamp example:
20211018_14:54:54.0596445490_Mon
Ubuntu 20.04.3 command below works, displaying
Directories and
Files and
Hidden files with:
Permissions, Time_Day, f or d, Path/fileName with
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Hashutils to recurse the whole drive
Following this post another super user question, I downloaded hashutils. Works great with with the -r flag to recurse a folder. However, I am unable to recurse a whole drive.
Trying this command, the ...
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find duplicate files by size and MDF
I am writing script to search for dups files and group them by size and then by their MD5 check sum.
here is my script:
find . -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type ...
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Trouble verifying md5 checksums created on Windows with Linux
Verifiying checksums inside a file usually works like this using Linux and md5sum.
md5sum -c file.md5
However, using it like this on a Windows file reveals errors, that took me a long while to ...
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Update-Packages hash sum mismatch due to GPG error
syndaemon: no process found
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:imnobody being added to access control list
Script for none started at run_im.
Script for auto started at run_im.
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How to print md5sum on separate line?
I am trying to calculate the md5 hash of a string (say 'hunter5'). To do this, I run md5sum , type or paste the string, then type Control-D (EOT) twice.
> md5sum
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How to verify download of TortoiseHg software for Windows
When installing software onto my PC, I generally like to run a hash check against my download before installing it. Many download pages provide an MD5sum to use for this kind of check.
See: Some ...
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