Well, after my own little survey, I've determined the following:
md5 on BSD (Apache Minotaur):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mdiggory> md5 foo.bar
MD5 (foo.bar) = 7f5e787ff3b930d906d01243ccf7c237
md5 has no built in option to compare the file to the checksum and
return true/false.
Output of md5sum (G
Besides, my current experiments with gnu md5sum (2.0.21) show that the
sum's on the Maven contents arn't verifyable to any other tool but the
maven checksum plugin.
If they aren't verifiable to extenral tools thats a bad situation. I'm
going to bring this up on the Maven list too.
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