MD5sums Alternatives for Linux

MD5sums is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is FileBot. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try GtkHash or Collision. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MD5sums and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to MD5sums are Hash-o-matic, RHash, fixarr and wxChecksums.

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  1. FileBot icon
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    FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your movies, tv shows or anime, and music well as downloading subtitles and artwork. It's smart and just works.

    30 FileBot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. GtkHash icon
     30 likes

    Currently supported hash functions include CRC32, ADLER32, GOST, MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6, SHA1, SHA2, SHA3, RIPEMD, HAVAL, TIGER, WHIRLPOOL and BLAKE2.

    39 GtkHash alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
     
  3. Collision icon
     3 likes

    Check hashes for your files - A GUI tool to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 & SHA-512 hashes.

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  4. Hash-o-matic icon
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    Simple hash validator allowing to compare two files, generate the checksum of a file and verify if a hash matches a file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. RHash icon
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    RHash (Recursive Hasher) is a console utility for computing and verifying hash sums of files. It supports CRC32, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, Tiger, DC++ TTH, BitTorrent BTIH, ED2K, AICH, GOST R 34.11-94, RIPEMD-160, HAS-160, EDON-R 256/512, Whirlpool and Snefru-128/256...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. fixarr icon
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    Fixarr is a free, open-source media renamer that can rename files, especially for movies, TV shows, and anime. It has features like movie renamer, TV renamer, anime renamer, Plex backup, multi threading, purging unnecessary files (NFO,SRT), Jellyfin backup, Emby backup, movie...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. wxChecksums icon
     6 likes

    wxChecksums is a program which calculates and verifies checksums. So you can check the integrity of one or more files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. checksum icon
     11 likes

    checksum is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense BLAKE2, SHA1 & MD5 hashing program for Windows, capable of creating & verifying hashes of files and folders, even whole drives, with just one or two clicks. It is robust, lightning fast, intuitive, and completely customizable.

    69 checksum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Jacksum icon
     3 likes

    Jacksum is a free and cross platform data integrity software tool for computing and verifying checksums, CRCs, message digests, and hash values. 470 algorithms are supported, it takes advantage of modern multi-processor/multi-core environments.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. A simple and elegant open-source hash checker software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  4 likes

    Cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files while optionally recursively digging through the directory structure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. This tool will generate hash strings to validate directories and files, in the same vein as hashdeep or fciv. I wrote it after giving up trying to find a decent tool to validate my backups. Although many tools like the two previously mentioned will generate hash files for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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