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Thiago Britto-Borges edited this page Nov 7, 2022 · 1 revision

Validating file transfers

Two different files are unlikely to have the same MD5 checksum. So the MD5 checksum is comparable to a digital fingerprint. We use this property to validate whether file transfers were successful.

Initial checksum

Sequence facilities should provide MD5 checksum, one per file.

(Optional) Creating checksums

md5sum * > md5sum.txt

(Optional) Validate checksum after download

md5sum --check md5sum.txt
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