[adrian_b]

A truncated SHA-256 is both more secure and also faster to compute on any modern CPU than MD5, and a visual comparison would work identically.

If a visual comparison is believed necessary, it should better be made easier, e.g. by overwriting the two hash values, using text of different colors.

Otherwise, even a bash script, or even just one bash command line can easily compare the output of two sha256sum executions and print an appropriate message.

[upofadown]

If you have some sort of information processing system available to compare hashes, then you would be better off comparing the data directly. The hashes when used in this context are primarily to make things like manual comparisons possible. Usability is the point.