MD5 different in terminal than 3rd party ap - why?

zdvdla · zdvdla #1 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 04:19 PM

anybody know why that when I run

md5 -s "filename"

I get a completely different hash than

md5deep /filename

I ran it against an md5 that came with a download and the one from terminal didn't match it. I made a new one from md5deep and it did match the online one...

one from online
38cf0b054e5846489d2b8ac60b6783cf
terminal
afcbfda1d51c3344fe82590a3725ca3c
md5deep
38cf0b054e5846489d2b8ac60b6783cf

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #2 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 09:55 PM

is the md5sum output the same?

btw, md5 -s "filename"

will give you the md5 checksum of the string "filename". Not the md5 message digest of the file. To get that using md5, use

md5 "filename"

zdvdla · zdvdla #3 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 10:51 PM

you are correct! Thank you for that....wasn't sure about the -s...just did what I was told...and look where that got me!

Thank you again...

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Member Since: Jun 15, 2011 Posts: 14	06-17-2011, 04:19 PM anybody know why that when I run md5 -s "filename" I get a completely different hash than md5deep /filename I ran it against an md5 that came with a download and the one from terminal didn't match it. I made a new one from md5deep and it did match the online one... one from online 38cf0b054e5846489d2b8ac60b6783cf terminal afcbfda1d51c3344fe82590a3725ca3c md5deep 38cf0b054e5846489d2b8ac60b6783cf
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