[PLUG] Cross platform MD5 utility supporting multiple files?

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Wed May 22 22:28:45 UTC 2002


If the md5sum program in linux/Unix does what you need, google returns this:

http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/md5sum

for a list of places to get md5sum for Windows.

At 03:11 PM 5/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>The md5 checksum is a pretty reliable way of checking for errors.
>
>Anyone know of a cross-platform (Linux/Unix/Win32) utlity that will read
>in a BATCH of files (specified ideally by a wildcard) and output to the
>console (or a file if redirected) a summary of md5 checksums?
>
>Win32 is needed as unfortuntately most of my friends don't have running
>Linux/Unix boxes handy on their home LAN's :)

Russ Johnson
http://www.dimstar.net


Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.






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