www.smobnology.com/2015/06/microsoft-dos-fciv-command.html?m=0 About fciv Short for File Checksum Integrity Verifier, FCIV is a Windows command line command that can be used to check the MD5 or SHA-1 file checksum cryptographic hash information. Availability The fciv.exe is an external command that is not pre-installed with any version of Windows, it must be downloaded from Microsoft. Syntax fciv.exe [Commands] <Options> -add <file | dir> Compute hash and send to output (default screen). dir options: -r : recursive. -type : ex: -type *.exe. -exc file: list of directories that should not be computed. -wp : Without full path name. ( Default store full path) -bp : specify base path to remove from full path name -list List entries in the database. -v Verify hashes. Option: -bp basepath. -md5 | -sha1 | -both Specify hashtype, default md5. -xml db Specify database format and name. Examples fciv hope.txt Running the fciv against any file (in this case hope.txt) displays the File Checksum information similar to the example below. // // File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05. // 30ad2c562520d88d4e030fecf2f8c642 hope.txt fciv hope.txt -both Running the above command will give the output for both MD5 and SHA-1. fciv -add hope.txt -xml hope.xml Add the MD5 information of the "hope.txt" file to the XML hope.xml file. If the file does not exist a new file will be created. Below is an example of the XML file created using this command. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <FCIV> Continue reading www.smobnology.com/2015/06/microsoft-dos-fciv-command.html?m=0 www.smobnology.com/2015/06/microsoft-dos-fciv-command.html?m=0