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adroman

Re: Change default md5sums to md5sum for Checksum command in Properties

Thank you very much, it works fine with portable version. But could you please clarify where to find Algorithm box
martin

Re: Change default md5sums to md5sum for Checksum command in Properties

I have fixed this.
I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

Also the next version will allow configuring the checksum commands:
Issue 2394 – Allow configuring checksum commands

You can actually use md5sum even with the current version by typing "md5sum" to the Algorithm box.
adroman

Change default md5sums to md5sum for Checksum command in Properties

Dear WinSCP Community,

I'm using WinSCP 6.5.3 on Windows 10 with default settings. When calculating checksums via Properties > Checksum, the embedded command uses md5sums, which fails on Linux hosts with the error:
Command 'md5sums "filename"'
failed with return code 127 and error message:
-bash: line 9: md5sums: command not found

This happens because most Linux distributions provide md5sum instead of md5sums. I can create a custom command using md5sum, which works fine, but it doesn't integrate with the Properties > Checksum feature.

Is there a way to configure or override the embedded md5sums command to use md5sum in the Properties > Checksum menu? Alternatively, could this be considered as a feature request to allow customization of the checksum command or support for md5sum by default?

Thank you for your help!