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Compare md5 sums:
$ md5 file1 file2 file3 > checksum.md5
$ md5 file1 file2 file3 | diff checksum.md5 -

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:29:39PM -0500, Matt Kosht wrote:
> Is there a simple way to compare the md5 checksum of a file, to a file
> that contains possibly more than one md5 checksum entry in it?  Kind
> of like mdsum -c does?

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