MD5SUM With program

vdz · 11-18-2010, 04:48 PM

Hi All,

As I am asked to create a program that runs MD5SUM as follows:

Because there are a lot of files in sequence number say file1, file2, etc. So everytime we run MD5 to check a file say file1 then it generates checksum1.md5, and file2 > checksum2.md5 and so on

I think it is possible but please help/show me where I start or somepoint to start with. I have done a bit of Unix before.

Thank you in advance

chrism01 · 11-18-2010, 10:19 PM

Code:

for file in $( cat files.lst )
do
    md5sum $file >$file.md5
done

where the files to md5sum are listed one to a line in the file files.lst.
You can use the above links to amend the code to your spec.

vdz · 11-19-2010, 03:24 AM

Hi Chris

much appreciated.

I'll give it a go.

Cheers