NAME¶

md5sum - Print or check the MD5 checksums

SYNOPSIS¶

md5sum [-c|--check] [-w|--warn] [--status] [--quiet] [--ignore-missing] [--strict] [--tag] [-t|--text] [-z|--zero] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION¶

Print or check the MD5 checksums

OPTIONS¶

-c, --check

read checksums from the FILEs and check them

-w, --warn

warn about improperly formatted checksum lines

--status

don't output anything, status code shows success

--quiet

don't print OK for each successfully verified file

--ignore-missing

don't fail or report status for missing files

--strict

exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines

--tag

create a BSD style checksum

-t, --text

read in text mode (default)

-z, --zero

end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES¶

Calculate the MD5 checksum for one or more files:

md5sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Calculate and save the list of MD5 checksums to a file:

md5sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > path/to/file.md5

Calculate an MD5 checksum from `stdin`:

command | md5sum

Read a file of MD5 checksums and filenames and verify all files have matching checksums:

md5sum [-c|--check] path/to/file.md5

Only show a message for missing files or when verification fails:

md5sum [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.md5

Only show a message when verification fails, ignoring missing files:

md5sum --ignore-missing [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.md5

Check a known MD5 checksum of a file:

echo known_md5_checksum_of_the_file path/to/file | md5sum [-c|--check]

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.