[clug] md5sum and verifying DVD

[Tony and Robyn Lewis]

Peter Barker wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote:
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>>.  There are probably
>>better ways...
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>Shell redirection? head --bytes=<size> < /dev/hdc | md5sum
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Ta.  Was thinking, though, of something better than 'head' for trimming 
bytes off a file (is there some 'trim'-ish command)?

Andrew P wins with the smart use of isoinfo and bs= and count=, methinks.

Tony