CHECKISOMD5(1)

💿 CHECKISOMD5 — the manual page, but make it cute 💿

okay bestie, so this is the checkisomd5 page from the General Commands Manual, and no cap, it's a whole vibe. it lives in section 1 of the manual (that's the "commands you actually type" section, iykyk). let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

checkisomd5 — check an MD5 checksum implanted by implantisomd5

like… it checks a checksum. that's the whole job. she's an icon, she's a legend, and the question is whether she's the moment. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

checkisomd5 [--md5sumonly]  [--verbose]  [--gauge]  [isofilename  |
blockdevice ]

so you run her, optionally with --md5sumonly, --verbose, or --gauge, and then you hand her either an isofilename or a blockdevice. pick one, bestie, not both. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this manual page is documenting the checkisomd5 command, briefly — consider this the sparknotes but make it fun. checkisomd5 is a program that checks an embedded MD5 checksum inside an ISO9660 image (.iso), or a block device. the checksum itself got embedded there by the corresponding implantisomd5 command, which is a whole other girlie, go read her page (linked below, obvi).

and listen — if you're sitting there watching this thing run and you simply cannot anymore, you can abort the check by pressing the Esc key. escape room? no. escape key. 🦋

✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

the program tells you how it went, numerically, and honestly that's very main character of her:

• 0 — the checksum is correct 💖
• 1 — the checksum is incorrect or non-existent 😭
• 2 — the check was aborted (hi, that was you pressing Esc) 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --md5sumonly — do not check the target. instead, output human-readable information about the target's checksums. it's giving "just tell me about it, don't test it" 🌸
• --verbose — display human-readable progress as the target is checked. without this option, nothing is outputted except errors. so if you're like "why is she silent" — that's why, she's just being mysterious ✨
• --gauge — display a series of numbers from 0 to 100, corresponding to check progress. this output can be piped to dialog --gauge for a user-friendly progress bar. a bar!! a whole bar!! obsessed 🎀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• implantisomd5 (1). — the one who put the checksum there in the first place. the origin story. the blueprint. 🧚

lowkey reminder: isofilename and blockdevice are an either/or situation in the synopsis, so don't come at her with both and expect good things. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was CHECKISOMD5(1) from the General Commands Manual — go forth and verify your ISOs, slay, and remember: Esc is your friend, and dialog --gauge is right there if you want a progress bar moment. mwah 💜✨