md5sum is a computer program that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.
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Batch file to check md5sum of log file
I need some help making a service application batch file.
In short, the application checks if there are any new files in a folder, if so it writes to a log file (Results.txt).
The problem is that if there are no "results" in the folder in 24 hours…

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Why do md5 and sha-* only use alphanumeric characters in their hash result?
I understand not wanting to use '\0', but all the rest in the extended ASCII range is usable right?
Wouldn't this provide a much better/secure/"less coliding" hash?

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Get md5sum in pipe
I am creating archives of very large directories and splitting these archives in smaller parts as follows:
tar -vcz target_dir | pigz > target_dir.tar.gz
md5sum target_dir.tar.gz > md5sum.txt
split -n 10 target_dir.tar.gz…

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Creating a Thunar Custom Action to compare the md5sum of file against an md5 in the clipboard
Trying to make a Thunar Custom Action for XFCE that gets the md5sum of the file you right click and compares it to the md5 in the clipboard, after a pattern match is used to check if what is in the clipboard is an md5. Then output the results in…

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Hashlib.md5 a varaible bytes object with prefix b''
How i should pass the value of string x (\0x02...) to the hashlib.md5 function and get the same output as result0 (05db8f903dc9adc5874eb2cab3aa725b) ?
Note:
b'' is a prefix, that causes the following string to be interpreted as a bytes-type object.…

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Ansible - Looking for files and compare their hash
Practice:
I have the file files.yml with a list of files and their respective md5_sum hash, like:
files:
- name: /opt/file_compare1.tar
hash: 9cd599a3523898e6a12e13ec787da50a /opt/file_compare1.tar
- name: /opt/file_compare2tar.gz
hash:…

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Why two empty files have different md5sum?
touch toto.txt
md5sum toto.txt
a4f004eb028c83dea918471ad5939cfa
touch titi.txt
md5sum titi.txt
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
And i don't understand why, the two files are empty and should be the same no ?

la minute dom
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How to validate file transfers(cp,scp command) in unix shell scripts by checksum or md5 command?
I have a unix shell script that creates and transfers files from one path to another ( either from same server or from another)
Then there is transfer of files to this folder from either same or different server.
I'm unable to identify a method…

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`line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'` when run bash `case` function
#!/bin/bash
set -e
deb_folder='/home'
myinstall(){
deb=$1
temp="${1%.*}"
num="${temp##*.}"
temp2="${temp%.*}"
method="${temp2##*.}"
case "$method" in
md5)
md5=md5sum $deb
echo 'here'
if [[ "${md5:0:3}${md5:…

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How to use `md5sum` to process `$1` of `awk`?
test file as example:
cat <<'EOF'> test
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi root root 700 1625230722
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/mmx64.efi root root 700 1625230722
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/shimx64.efi root root 700 1625230722
/boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2 root…

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Using xargs parameterrs as variables to compare two md5sum
I'm extracting two md5sums by using this code:
md5sum test{1,2} | cut -d' ' -f1-2
I'm receiving two md5sums as in example below:
02eace9cb4b99519b49d50b3e44ecebc
d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249
Afterwards I'm not sure how to compare them. I…

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Oracle m5 hash returns different string than do Postgresql and bash md5sum(1)
Oracle 12c:
SQL> select UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW('Tom') as hex_val,
2 dbms_crypto.hash(src=>UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW('Tom'), typ=>2) as hex_hash
3 from dual;
546F6D
D9FFACA46D5990EC39501BCDF22EE7A1
Postgresql 12.5:
sides=> select…

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Is there a way of making an md5sum of all files in subfolders?
I have several exports of telegram data and I would like to calculate the md5 and sha256 hash of all files but it only calculates those in the root directory
$ md5sum `ls` > hash.md5
md5sum: chats: Is a directory
md5sum: css: Is a directory
md5sum:…

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how to generate checksum of large blob file on blob trigger using azure function?
I want to create checksum(MD5) for the large files(around 1 GB) uploaded in the blob. I an using blob trigger azure function. Any approach. currently, my code is this
const {
exec
} = require('child_process');
function…

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Gensub inside a shell command in Snakemake
# md5sum on fastq folder on cluster
rule md5sum_fastq_cluster:
input:
path_cluster+'/'+project_name+'/'+project_name+'.csv'
output:
path_cluster+'/'+project_name+'/'+'md5sum.txt'
shell:
"""find…

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