Get the MD5 hash for a file on the command line, using Digest::MD5

usage: ./md5sum.pl [filename] [-f]
        -f      do not display filename

[perl]

use warnings;
use strict;

use Digest::MD5;

sub md5sum
{
my $file = shift;
my $digest = “”;
eval{
open(FILE, $file) or die “Can’t find file $file\n”;
my $ctx = Digest::MD5->new;
$ctx->addfile(*FILE);
$digest = $ctx->hexdigest;
close(FILE);
};
if($@){
print $@;
return “”;
}
return $digest;
}

sub usage
{
print “usage: ./md5sum.pl [filename] [-f]\n”;
print “\t-f\tdo not display filename\n”;

exit 1;
}

if (($#ARGV + 1 != 1) && ($#ARGV + 1 != 2)){
usage();
}

my $fname = $ARGV[0];
my $withfil = $ARGV[1];
my $md5 = md5sum($fname);

if($md5 ne “”){
if ($withfil) {
print “$md5\n”;
} else {
print $md5.” “.$fname.”\n”;
}
}else{
exit 1;
}

exit 0;

[/perl]

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