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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I used awk for the first time today to find all the MD5 sums that matched an old file I had to get rid of. Still have no idea what awk was needed for. πŸ˜… All my programming skill is in Python. Linux syntax is a weak point of mine.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Probably the very same thing that the post talks about, which is extracting the first word of a line of text.

    The output of md5sum looks like this:

    > md5sum test.txt
    a3cca2b2aa1e3b5b3b5aad99a8529074 test.txt
    

    So, it lists the checksum and then the file name, but you wanted just the checksum.

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