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How to check if the ISO was written to my USB stick without errors?
I followed these DebianEeePC HowTo InstallUsingStandardInstaller instructions at the Debian Wiki, to write a Debian ISO to my USB.
dd if=debian-*-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX
Using sha1sum, I can check ...
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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory's contents as one sum?
The md5sum program does not provide checksums for directories. I want to get a single MD5 checksum for the entire contents of a directory, including files in sub-directories. That is, one combined ...
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Checksum on Network drive is really slow
I want to check if a bunch of files have copied without problem to a network drive. I am not able to ssh to the network drive, but I am able to mount it using FTP.
The number of files is about 220, ...
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Sanity checking MD5 sums
Do MD5 checksums contain a checkbit?
I have to copy some MD5 checksums by hand (there's no other way) and was wondering whether there is any code out there that can validate a checksum as being valid ...
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Running sha1sum into several directories
I have several directories that share a common parent directory. In each directory there are regular files, but no other subdirectories. Something like this:
top/dir-1
top/dir-1/file-11
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Bash function to compare two binary files [closed]
I need a function to compare 2 binary files, here the requirements:
2 files, not 3 or 4
files can't be assumed to exist
avoid running checksum (CRC/MD5/SHA/...) until one must
if running multiple ...
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How to create a md5-file for every folder in a drive recursivley?
I'm searching for a script which creates a md5 chechsum file for every single folder inside drive recursivley?
I do have a copy of md5deep on my machine but I'm not that good in scripting bash.
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Software raid checksumming slow
On my new 24 disk array I get 900 MB/s of raw read or write using dd to all the disks.
When I set the disks up as a 24 disk RAID6 I get 400 MB/s write and 600 MB/s read. It seems to be due to ...
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FLAC correctness using MD5 placed in STREAMINFO
I know from [Sources], that FLAC computes CRC and MD5.
What I am afraid that flac --test only does CRC test - as stated in man flac : same as -d except no decoded file is written .
How to check flac ...
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Appending checksum information to file
I'd like to embed checksum information into file, that I transfer.
It's tar.gz or tar.xz file and I can only transfer one file to remote side.
How do you recommend I embed checksum information?
I ...
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Is there file format for checksums?
I want to store SHA512 checksum of the file for my application. How to do it in common (popular) way? So this checksum can be used but by third party application too.
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Is there MD5 (or similar) to a folder? How to verify if two folders are equal?
I'd like to find an md5sum (or similar calculation) of a folder without compressing it into an archive.
For example, if in the folder MyFolder we have the files 1.txt, 2.txt and 3.txt, containing:
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Shell redirection all of a sudden not working? [closed]
I have a Canon camera mounted with gphotofs and I'm trying to essentially do an md5sum on all of the files, but I need to rename the files before I write them to my file, so sed is in the equation. ...
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Obtaining md5 during wget
I'm wget'ing huge files (over 100GB) and then comparing my md5sum to the sum posted in the repository. Believe it or not, md5sum takes a nontrivial amount of time to run on a file of this size, so ...
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How to check if a file is corrupt or not?
Are there any general solutions to check if a file is corrupt or not? For example, whether a video file is bad, or a compressed file is corrupt, etc.
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Tool to remove all non-package files on a system
If you want to keep for example a build or server system clean, it is very useful to be able to check that all files are present and accounted for by the package metadata. At work we have a very nice ...
