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In my old Mandriva distribution, there was a little app called md5sum that would calculate md5 hashes. I can't seem to find it in the mageia distro. Is there an equivalent here?

Thanks!

billo

md5sum is part of the coreutils package which is installed by default.
It is a command line utility so you won't find it in the menu but it is there.

Ken

Oh, for crying out loud. I had been typing md5sim. Forehead slap. Thanks for making me look again, and sorry for the noise.

billo wrote:Oh, for crying out loud. I had been typing md5sim. Forehead slap. Thanks for making me look again, and sorry for the noise.

(You probably already know but just in case); You can use the bash (the shell) built-in tab completion so:

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$ md5<TAB>
md5pass  md5sum   
[ahmad@mybox ~]$ md5s<TAB>

on the second tab, you'll get md5sum.

You can also install the bash-completion package, to get many more complex completions, e.g.:

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# urpmi --auto
--auto          --auto-orphans  --auto-select   --auto-update   
[root@mybox ahmad]# urpmi --auto-u<TAB>

will auto-complete to 'urpmi --auto-update'. Check /etc/bash_completion.d/ for a list of the commands that will have bash completion support.

Beware with urpmi

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urpmi a<TAB>

can literraly stuck you computer because it will search every packages starts with A.

Sfiet_Konstantin wrote:Beware with urpmi

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urpmi a<TAB>

can literraly stuck you computer because it will search every packages starts with A.

Same, or worse, with

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urpmi lib<TAB>

I too find package names completion slow, that's why I patch /etc/bash_completion.d/urpmi locally to disable the package names auto-completion. (I filed a bug report about that issue some time ago https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373).

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ahmad wrote:(You probably already know but just in case); You can use the bash (the shell) built-in tab completion so:

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$ md5<TAB>
md5pass  md5sum   
[ahmad@mybox ~]$ md5s<TAB>

on the second tab, you'll get md5sum.

You can also install the bash-completion package, to get many more complex completions, e.g.:

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# urpmi --auto
--auto          --auto-orphans  --auto-select   --auto-update   
[root@mybox ahmad]# urpmi --auto-u<TAB>

will auto-complete to 'urpmi --auto-update'. Check /etc/bash_completion.d/ for a list of the commands that will have bash completion support.

No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!!

billo