Here are a couple of options I use for a single file.

I copy and paste the checksum to make sure it is accurate.

If I am not grepping the checksum I copy the returned md5sum into an editor,
then paste a copy of the original undet that so I can compare them a character at a time.

Harold

On 03/12/2014 05:42 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 <jmcphe@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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~(-:

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