[plug] Comparing to CD's

Brian Tombleson brian at ParadigmIT.com.au
Tue Oct 17 18:37:03 WST 2000


Tony,

> I thought something like:
> Insert Original CD:
> md5sum </dev/cdrom >disks.md5
> Insert copied CD:
> md5sum </dev/cdrom >>disks.md5
> then make sure both md5's are the same.
> Does that seem reasonable .... or is there a better way.

Could do this, maybe slightly simpler would be to >disk1.md5 the first one
and >disk2.md5 the second one and then 'diff disk1.md5 disk2.md5' ..

Never tried this, just my 2c worth.

- Brian




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