Thanks! It was really bugging me. I got as far as downloading the md5sum file, but was trying to compare it directly with the AOO file by listing both filenames after the md5sum -c command. Next time I'll try it your way.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:12 PM, James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> wrote: > On 06/27/2015 12:44 PM, Heidi Lasher-Oakes wrote: > > md5sum -c <AOO file>.tar.gz.md5 > > > > The -c option is used when you have a text file that contains the md5sum > for one or more files. Md5sum will read that file and check the file's > md5 sum against the line in the text file. If you look at the md5 on > the server, it is in the form that could be pasted into a text file. > This means you could download several files, paste the line into a text > file and then run md5sum -c on the text file to verify all the files > with one command. Some servers, such as those used for Linux, often > have an md5sum file, which you can download. > >
