I have finished downloading all of the disk images for Fedora Core 4 on my mac. I wanted to verify that the files were not corrupted. Fedora provides the sha1 checksum for each of the images for this purpose. Mac OS X doesn’t provide md5sum or sha1sum tools at all. Fink does provide a way to install md5sum, but not sha1sum.
This web site provides a small package that includes md5sum, sha1sum, and ripemd160sum, I was able to compile it just fine. The only problem that I had was during the “make install” step the Makefile attempted to set the owner to a nonexistent one in Mac OS X. Even with that problem the programs work fine.
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hey, just googled for “sha1sum” and “os x” on google and you were one of the first hits. just want to thank you for the link
There is an easier way — sha1sum is part of the textutils package, which can be installed through Fink.
Just use openssl:
$ openssl dgst -sha1 FC4-i386-disc1.iso
SHA1(FC4-i386-disc1.iso)= 3fb2924c8fb8098dbc8260f69824e9c437d28c68
awesome! i don’t have dev tools on this mac; that helped a lot!
thanks a lot. that bit abt openssl helped a lot.
there’s also the coreutils package from DarwinPorts which contains both md5sum and sha1sum. All tools in this package start with a ‘g’ tho, so you’ll have to enter:
$ gsha1sum
It is weird that OSX doesn’t have sha1sum command… however I am putting this one into .profile, hope it works >_<
alias sha1sum=”openssl dgst -sha1″
It did not work for me, unfortunately.