If you are interested in generating checksums for files, the recommended practice these days is to use a digest function, and one that springs to mind is Digest::MD5. As this is a Perl module, it also means that you can calculate a checksum without relying on an external program. Here is a sample script to get you up and running:

use strict;
use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_base64/;

my $file = shift or die "No file specified on command-line.\n";
open IN, $file or die "Cannot open $file for input: $!\n";
my $digest = md5_base64(<IN>);
close IN;
print "Digest of $file is $digest\n";

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Digest::MD5 has much stronger properties for guaranteeing that a given file has not been modified, and that two different files are indeed different, than the standard Unix checksum program.


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In reply to Re: Capturing Results Of A System Command (use a digest function) by grinder
in thread Capturing Results Of A System Command by heezy

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