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md5sum

Calculate MD5 cryptographic checksums.

• Calculate the MD5 checksum for a file:

md5sum {{filename1}}

• Calculate MD5 checksums for multiple files:

md5sum {{filename1}} {{filename2}}

• Read a file of MD5SUMs and verify all files have matching checksums:

md5sum -c {{filename.md5}}