I have the following php code line:
$md5_code = md5(file_get_contents($filePath, FALSE, NULL, 0, n_bytes));
that generates a MD5 hash code of a file's first n_bytes
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I would like to make a similar executable script/program, that gets the file and exports in a text file the MD5 hash code generated from the first n_bytes
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I think I need to mention that the script should work on both Windows and Linux machines.
The script can work something like this:
Is this even possible ?
Assuming you have functional Linux utilities on your window box, you can use bash and md5sum. You do not need to create a new file, as 'md5sum' can process data on stdin.
# Modify variable to use parameters/values as needed.
filename=...
n_bytes=100
out_file=md5.out
head -c "$n_bytes" "$filename" | md5sum | awk '{ print $1 }' > "$out_file"