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Verify a Downloaded File

Posted 02-10-2016 at 04:29 PM by tpalmerstudios (PalmerStudios)
Whenever I download something, I like to be very sure on the authenticity of the file. The only way to do this easily is by using a cryptographic hash. There are two main types. First is MD5, and the second is SHA1.
Requirements:
1. A computer.
2. 10 minutes to learn (the actual process is only 1 minute long.)
3. Internet connection
How to do it: (On Windows)
1. Download the file needing to be verified. (I am using a Linux ISO. This file can be anything,...
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Recursively generate MD5 checksums

Posted 10-26-2011 at 09:53 AM by Garda
Tags find, md5, md5sum, xargs
I wanted to generate MD5 checksums of a whole bunch of files in a directory. It turns out that this is not as straightforward as it should be. IMO it should be completed with: md5sum -br *

Unfortunately it was not as straightforward. I found this blog entry after searching for a while and adapted this to what I needed. To generate checksums, I used the following:

Code:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum -b
(Note: for the above to work, "cd"...
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