hashes in download directory

Tom Zeller tzeller at dragonacea.biz
Thu Mar 12 11:25:21 EDT 2015


> I generated hashes because [md5|shaX]sum -c <hash> does not work for
> the hashes generated by Maven, AFAIK.

> I never noticed but unless I'm missing it, it doesn't seem like sha1sum has
> a mode that stays "verify the digest of file X against the digest value
> stored in file Y".  Maybe some other digest/hashing tool does.

Oh, I see my typo above, sha1sum -c <hash> is wrong, it's sha1sum -c
<file.sha1>. The -c is "read SHA1 sums from the FILEs and check them".

I didn't mean to do something controversial with the hashes.


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