md5sum (1)

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NAME

md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest

SYNOPSIS

md5sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

-b, --binary

read in binary mode

-c, --check

read MD5 sums from the FILEs and check them

--tag

create a BSD-style checksum

-t, --text

read in text mode (default)

The following three options are useful only when verifying checksums:

--quiet

don't print OK for each successfully verified file

--status

don't output anything, status code shows success

-w, --warn

warn about improperly formatted checksum lines

--strict

with --check, exit non-zero for any invalid input

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. When checking, the input should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print a line with checksum, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary, space for text), and name for each FILE.

BUGS

The MD5 algorithm should not be used any more for security related purposes. Instead, better use an SHA-2 algorithm, implemented in the programs sha224sum(1), sha256sum(1), sha384sum(1), sha512sum(1)

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.

REPORTING BUGS

Report md5sum bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report md5sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for md5sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and md5sum programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'md5sum invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

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