On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Programmer In Training < p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 3:11 PM, James Knott wrote: > > Is it not possible to check the md5sum on a Mac? It's always a good > > idea to verify download integrity. > <snip> > > Are there any native[1] utilities on a Mac to do that? I know there > aren't any on Windows (and I don't even know of any third-party > utilities, but that's just because I've never bothered to check). > > PIT > > [1]: By native I mean comes with the OS by default. Like 'cd' or 'mkdir' > is native to *Nix's. > > Open a terminal window. Type md5sum and the file name you want to get the md5sum to Compare the result to the published md5sum of the file to verity that it downloaded correctly. John
