MD5SUM

 

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 four 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

–strict

exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines

-w, –warn

warn about improperly formatted checksum lines

–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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report md5sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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.