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checksum on tar.gz

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rob.costa1234 ▴ 310

I have several fastq files in tar.gz. can i rum check sum on his tar if so how? Thanks

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2020-03-14

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ATpoint 85k

md5 (whateverfileyouwant)

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Wiil it give me checksum of individual files inside tar?

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No. It won't give you checksum of files inside tar archive. You will need to uncompress the tar file and then check.

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Arup Ghosh 3.2k

To generate md5sums use,

md5sum <file>

To validate the check sums.

md5sum -c md5sum.txt

The program will consider the tar.gz archive as single file.

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