Comments on: Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format

By: Lance Quejada

Lance Quejada — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:33:49 +0000

Finally got md5sum working on osx http://bit.ly/cgk6mX http://bit.ly/dlwcdN #geek #osx

By: Raam

Raam — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:02:51 +0000

Hey Peter, you’re very welcome!

Interestingly, I just checked the man page for md5 on my system (also Snow Leopard, 10.6.3) and it does mention the -r option.

By: Peter DeGregorio

Peter DeGregorio — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:33:11 +0000

Thanks for this … Oddly, the man page for md5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not mention the -r option, so this information you’ve posted is especially helpful.

By: Raam Dev

Raam Dev — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:36:40 +0000

@enogrob BTW, you may also be interested in this other post I wrote: Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format – http://bit.ly/5s3Pv3

By: Raam

Raam — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:33:11 +0000

Ah, thanks for that, Jack! I’ve updated the post.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:13:54 +0000

That won’t work when you have more than one argument or argument(s) that have embedded spaces, such as md5sum /sbin/s* Try the following:

#!/bin/bash
/sbin/md5 -r “$@”

By: Mitchel Jhonson

Mitchel Jhonson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:42:56 +0000

Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format – Solid State Raam: I then make this script executable ( chmod +x md.. http://bit.ly/5fxJZz