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Quick and easy command line script to compare sha1sum of a file and the sha1sum string (eliminates need to create a file)
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| [ $(sha1sum /path/to/file/to/check.txt | awk '{printf "%s", $1}') = "1a5091_SHA1_TO_CHECK_443234" ] && echo "Pass: sha1sum match" || echo "Warning: no match" |
Updated md5sum to sha1sum, a more appropriate hashing algorithm for the present day.
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Oddly, there seems to be no easy way to compare an md5sum string with a calculated md5sum on Linux without creating a file (i.e., "md5sum -c /file/name"), so I use this script, which can be run directly on the command line (no need to create and run a separate bash file).