Troubles with MD5SUM

[Peter L. Peres]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> I thought the whole idea of md5sum was to verify the "actual" file you
> were using

No, only its contents. md5sum does not look at the date, the permissions,
the block size etc. It's the difference between checking the contents of
two bottles being identical as opposed to the bottles proper being
identical.

Peter
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