Indranil Chowdhury wrote:
> Is the md5 checksum comparison case sensitive? Or is it not? I did not find
> the answer in your manuals. Could you please let me know in a short reply?
The comparison of the md5sum is case insensitive. The md5sum is a
value encoded in hexadecimal. Case is insignificant in a hexadecimal
value.
You can prove this to yourself by trying an experiment.
/tmp$ echo a > /tmp/a
/tmp$ md5sum /tmp/a > /tmp/a.md5sum
/tmp$ cat /tmp/a.md5sum
60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 /tmp/a
/tmp$ md5sum -c /tmp/a.md5sum
/tmp/a: OK
/tmp$ awk '{print toupper($1), $2}' /tmp/a.md5sum
60B725F10C9C85C70D97880DFE8191B3 /tmp/a
/tmp$ awk '{print toupper($1), $2}' /tmp/a.md5sum | md5sum -c -
/tmp/a: OK
Please ask questions on the coreut...@gnu.org mailing list rather than
in the bug tracker.
Bob
