md5sum of file in Linux C

Question

I want to find md5sum of a file in Linux C, Is there any API where I can send file name to get md5sum of that file.

Answer 1

You can use popen to run md5sum and read the output:

#include 
#include 

#define STR_VALUE(val) #val
#define STR(name) STR_VALUE(name)

#define PATH_LEN 256
#define MD5_LEN 32

int CalcFileMD5(char *file_name, char *md5_sum)
{
    #define MD5SUM_CMD_FMT "md5sum %." STR(PATH_LEN) "s 2>/dev/null"
    char cmd[PATH_LEN + sizeof (MD5SUM_CMD_FMT)];
    sprintf(cmd, MD5SUM_CMD_FMT, file_name);
    #undef MD5SUM_CMD_FMT

    FILE *p = popen(cmd, "r");
    if (p == NULL) return 0;

    int i, ch;
    for (i = 0; i < MD5_LEN && isxdigit(ch = fgetc(p)); i++) {
        *md5_sum++ = ch;
    }

    *md5_sum = '\0';
    pclose(p);
    return i == MD5_LEN;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char md5[MD5_LEN + 1];

    if (!CalcFileMD5("~/testfile", md5)) {
        puts("Error occured!");
    } else {
        printf("Success! MD5 sum is: %s\n", md5);
    }
}