/usr/bin/md5sum --help Usage: /usr/bin/md5sum [OPTION]... [FILE]... Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -b, --binary read in binary mode -c, --check read MD5 sums from the FILEs and check them -t, --text read in text mode (default) The following three options are useful only when verifying checksums: --quiet don't print OK for each successfully verified file --status don't output anything, status code shows success -w, --warn warn about improperly formatted checksum lines --strict with --check, exit non-zero for any invalid input --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. When checking, the input should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*' for binary, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE. Report md5sum bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'md5sum invocation' /usr/bin/md5sum --version md5sum (GNU coreutils) 8.13 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.