Either eyeball it, drop the md5sum in a file and -c it. Or pull it into stdin somehow and don't give -c an argument. jmcphee@mcphee ~ :) $ md5sum hosts.v2.dr c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b hosts.v2.dr jmcphee@mcphee ~ :) $ echo 'c941500d0f13118ead7c1d1eb79dec6b hosts.v2.dr' | md5sum -c hosts.v2.dr: OK On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > thanks James. I think the cksum is correct. So with the 'c' flag it will > check each file against the checksums in a text file. I remember doing that > with linuxfromscratch. What if you only have one sum? What flag should I > enter.... well, let's check 'man'. Man says check info and info doesn't > tell me. Is there a way to check one file easily? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:21 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > >> The -c flag is for when the file you're putting is a text file with a >> bunch of checksums in it. Simply do not use -c. >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> I downloaded a file and want to check it's sum to make sure it aI got a >>> good D/L. I think I'm doing it wrong. I d/l the file and type in: >>> >>> md5sum -c linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso >>> >>> and md5sum seems to open the iso and check the files in it. Here is the output: >>> >>> http://www.firedrive.com/file/DB5BBE6C682CA50D >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com