md5 on a mac

[Shizzle Cash]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Matthew Flaschen <
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Karsten Brenneman wrote:
> > I have downloaded Ubuntu a number of times each file is exactly 698.8Mb
> > (732,766,208 bytes).  i tried using disk utility to do that dm5 checksum
> > but i am only able to do crc-32 and the result is always: Checksum of
> > "ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386(2).iso" completed.
> > CRC32 $8992FDF8
>
> Well, CRC32 obviously isn't relevant.  Did you try following the
> instructions at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM#MD5SUM%20on%20Mac%20OS%20X
> .  The simplest method given there is just to open Terminal, navigate to
> the directory where you downloaded the image, and do:
>
> md5 ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386(2).iso


You can also issue the following command within a terminal

openssl dgst -md5 <filename>
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