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md5sum on Mac

From:

Mike Laidlaw

Date:

2011-12-28 @ 21:09

 From Learn C the Hard Way ch 5 exercise 4 example:

Minor issue, but at least on my Mac OS X 10.6, there doesn't seem to be 
a md5sum command available. I was able to quickly google and find out that

md5 -r

works essentially the same (?) as per the reference at the bottom of the 
text:
http://raamdev.com/2008/howto-install-md5sum-sha1sum-on-mac-os-x/

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 01:09:13PM -0800, Mike Laidlaw wrote:
> Minor issue, but at least on my Mac OS X 10.6, there doesn't seem to be 
> a md5sum command available. 

md5sum is part of the gnu core utils, so none of the BSDs (including OS X)
will have it out of the box.

-- 
Sean M. Collins

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On Dec 28, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Mike Laidlaw <doc@drlaidlaw.com> wrote:

> From Learn C the Hard Way ch 5 exercise 4 example:
>
> Minor issue, but at least on my Mac OS X 10.6, there doesn't seem to be
> a md5sum command available. I was able to quickly google and find out that
>
> md5 -r
>
> works essentially the same (?) as per the reference at the bottom of the
> text:
> http://raamdev.com/2008/howto-install-md5sum-sha1sum-on-mac-os-x/