parrot_md5(1)

💖 parrot_md5(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because we're talking about parrot_md5 from the Cooperative Computing Tools (that's the (1) part, it's a user command, we're fancy like that ✨).

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🌸 NAME 🌸

parrot_md5 — it hands you the MD5 checksum of a file, and it does it on the remote system if it possibly can. no cap. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

parrot_md5 <path>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, parrot_md5 returns the MD5 checksum of whatever file is sitting at <path>. 🎀

here's the slay part: if it's possible, it calls a native function of the remote system to get that checksum — meaning it does not have to drag the whole file's contents over to your machine first. the way that saves you a whole transfer? iconic. 🔥

and if the filesystem doesn't support that checksum function internally? no worries, it just gets computed by the user-level program in the normal fashion. either way you get your checksum, bestie. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

ngl, this is the shortest section ever:

• parrot_md5 has no options.

that's it. that's the section. periodt. 💀

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

• all good? returns zero. ✅
• something went wrong? returns non-zero. 😭

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

say you wanna retrieve the MD5 checksum of a file stored on a chirp server — here's the vibe:

% parrot_run parrot_md5 /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe/data
     d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e data

look at that checksum just showing up like it owns the place. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

(legal stuff, but make it cute — the license said what it said, and we respect it 🫡)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Parrot User Manual
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)

like a whole friend group of parrot commands, and yes parrot_md5(1) is in there referencing itself. self-love, we stan. 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil manual is from CCTools 8.0.0 DEVELOPMENT — go forth, checksum responsibly, and remember: no file transfer needed if the remote system can do it natively. slay. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸