MATLAB: How to find the MD5 checksum of a MATLAB file on Mac OS X

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I want to obtain the MD5 checksum of a MATLAB file on my Mac OS X.

Open a terminal in OS X, navigate to the directory where the file of interest resides, and type:

 md5 filename

to obtain the MD5 checksum.

The following command-line utilities can be used to calculate the MD5 checksum of the given file. Change the file name (in italics) as applicable.

Open Command Prompt and run the following command. Make sure to put "MD5" in capital letters.

CertUtil -hashfile _R2018b_win64_dvd1.iso_ MD5

Open a terminal and run the following command.

md5sum _R2018b_glanxa64_dvd1.iso_

Open a Terminal and run the following command.

md5sum _matlab_R2018b_maci64.dmg_

It may take a few minutes for the commands to calculate the checksum.

The ability to query the subkeys under a given key in Windows registry is not available in MATLAB.

To work around this issue, SYSTEM command can be used used with the Windows query which queries the subkeys of a particular key as follows:

[ok,txt] = system('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall')

The output can be parsed through to list the names of subkeys.