In my day-to-day activities, I often need to verify the MD5 checksum of a file. Typically, I’m checking the checksum after downloading something from the Internet. Thus I want to verify that the ...

It is always important to verify whether the large file you downloaded is the file you expected to download or not. This is because files may change in some way from the original while downloading.

Determine the MD5 sum of a set of input files. All input files are sorted by filename (regardless of their directory) and concatenated for the MD5 creation. This is done to ensure equal MD5 checksums ...

Unix systems provide numerous ways to compare files. The most common way to verify that you have received or downloaded the proper file is to compute a checksum and compare it against one computed by ...

In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

A project I'm working on is for a mixed Windows / Mac environment, migrating from NetWare (with AFP services) to Windows with ExtremeZ-IP. We've been using md5summer on Windows, which works great for ...