yeah.... it worked without the quotes.... oh I get it! You mean spaces in the searched text. Thanks for the help gentlemen!@ :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Harold wrote: > > Grep needs the text it is to search for as a quoted string. > > On second thought, that is the directions I found on the net, but as there > are no spaces it it it may work without them. > Test on your project and share. > > Harold > > > On 03/12/2014 07:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > md5sum linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso > 2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82 linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso > echo '2d84f671ad77a8019dfa6e1d00572d82 linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso' | > md5sum -c > md5sum: standard input: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found > > then I got Harold's message and that worked like a charm; although.... > > > - md5sum FileName | grep "96b13dbbc9f3bc569ddad9745f64b9cdb43ea9ae" > > Why do you put the quotes in your text? I tried it w/o and with and it > works both ways. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:45 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >