[mdlug] MD5SUM question

[Mark Stanislav]

Nope, it will not consider the filename.

As a quick example,

kryptobsd:~ mstanislav$ echo foo>foo
kryptobsd:~ mstanislav$ echo foo>bar

kryptobsd:~ mstanislav$ md5 foo bar

MD5 (foo) = d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
MD5 (bar) = d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:04 AM, mat.enders at gmail.com wrote:

> All,
> 
>          I have a quick question about MD5SUMs. A customer sent me what they said was an updated file. It is a pdf of floorplans for a school. It is a large file and intricate to look at for changes. It is also large to print 42"x30" and costs about $15 to print. I need two copies of the most recent version. I already have one copy of the original printed. So to see if the new file was different than the original I ran an MD5SUM of the two files and got different results. Now for the question these files have different names would the different names affect the MD5SUMs. 
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