On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:46:10AM -0700, Kent Loobey wrote: > >On Friday 28 September 2001 18:18, you wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:48:19PM -0700, Kent Loobey wrote: >> > > also, always do an MD5sum on the file to be sure >> > > it's exactly the same. >> > >> > Okay, so how does one do this? >> >> $ cat <file> |md5sum > >Is this > >$ cat < file > | md5sum > >where <>| are included or is <file> replaced with a file name and |md5sum a >typo?
<file> is replaced with the actual filename; this is a fairly common usage in examples. |md5sum is an acceptable syntax, although | md5sum is more legible. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
