Questions tagged [checksum]
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Diffference between Sha1sum, Sha256sum and Md5sum
What is the difference between Sha1sum, Sha256sum and Md5sum ?
and how to check all these for some iso file?
and how to create md5sum.txt file in ubuntu ?
Marko Blanka
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various checksums utilities precede hash with backslash
What is going on here? A backslash in a directory name and/or file name seems to cause various checksum utilities to report the hash preceded with a backslash slash.
Note that the coreutil wc does not behave this way.
Behavior as expected:
#ppd#…
Jeff
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How to verify the downloaded files by .torrent?
Many Ubuntu versions like 18.04.1, 18.04.2, 16.04.3, kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, couldn't find it's checksum of .iso file from websites, but the .iso can be downloaded from a torrent file providers like https://linuxtracker.org, does the torrent file…
user536180
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Range of possible value returned by cksum
I am looking for the range of possible values that could be returned by cksum. E.g.
echo -n '/my/path/filename' | cksum | cut -d' ' -f1
returns 2379496500. What is the range (min and max) of the possible values that can be returned?
BTW, the…
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