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Compare a known md5 hash against that of a downloaded file.
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md5-compare.sh
#!/user/bin/env bash
# $1 = file to digest
# $2 = expected hash
# Exits zero if the hashes match, outputs the difference if they do not and exits non-zero.
diff \
<(md5 ${1?"Provide a valid file path as the first argument."} | cut -f 4 -d ' ' -) \
<(echo ${2?"Provide the expected md5 hash as the second argument."})
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