md5sum from nautilus

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Carl Friis-Hansen
> <ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com> wrote:
>> Actually, it is probably overkill if you do not use it on a daily bases.
>> What I find *much* more useful is the plug-in you can get for Nautilus,
>> which allows you to "Open in Terminal" when you right-click on an empty
>> area in a Nautilus directory window. This eliminates the hassle of
>> cd'ing to the right location.
>>
> 
> I think the main reason why I need it is:
> I'm copying some big iso files from a network storage appliance that
> doesn't have any console. 

That is a little cryptic to me. What exactly do you mean by that?

 > The files are not accompanied by md5sum
> file. 

If you do not have an md5 for the files on storage, which is not so 
good, then you better create the md5s on the starage and save them in a 
text file in the right format. This might all be a little academic ifthe 
files are placed on the storage without any verification in the first place.

> I access it using "windows share" protocol from Nautilus. Then I
> copy the files to a samba shares. In Samba host, of course I can use
> md5sum CLI. But how to compare it on the appliance's side? To make
> sure that the files are not corrupted during copy.
> 

If you can copy the files from the storage to the samba shares, then you 
can read the files from a terminal window, nautilus or anything almost. 
So therefore you can create check sums both places, eventually with a 
batch process if you have really many files.

I might have misunderstood the task you try to accomplish, so please 
explain a bit more detail.

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