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What is the difference between "hexdump" and "md5sum"?

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As far as i know we can use both for comparing 2 files, want to know the difference between "hexdump" and "md5sum"?

posted May 5, 2015 by anonymous

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This is like comparing apple and oranges -

The hexdump utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or the standard input, if no files are specified, in a user specified format whereas md5sum calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes. The MD5 hash (or checksum) functions as a compact digital fingerprint of a file and this fingerprint is used to compare two files if both are same or different.

answer May 5, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
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