how do I verify that the the checksum is correct?
Alex Miua
amateur_radio_2007 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 2 22:58:43 UTC 2007
Ahh I thought along similar lines. In fact DOS has a
file comparing utility ? filecompare ? I guess that
can be used if one has windows and is installing FC.
Anyone remembers the exact name of that DOS utility?
Thank you.
--- Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > When I do : -
> > > >
> > > > sha1sum <iso file>
> > > >
> > > > this will output the checksum , do I have to
> verify by
> > > > looking at the huge number that it is correct
> or is
> > > > there a simple utilty which can compare the 2
> > > > checksums ?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Alex.
> > > My trick is to copy the checksums into a text
> file, highlight one of
> > > them and use find to see if it finds the next
> one.
> >
> > I have written a tiny script to do that.
> Basically, it compares two
> > strings. I will post it to you later on, as I have
> not it with me now.
>
> My simple script has the following code:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ "$1" = "$2" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo
> "different" ; fi
>
> Paul
>
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