Re: [patch] Checking multiple .md5 files (updated to CVS)

[Bob Proulx]

Shish wrote:
> There weren't any comments last time, and it didn't seem to get applied,
> so I figured I'd try again with a patch against current CVS for easier
> applying (rather than the last proper release). A rejection would be
> favoured over silence, so at least I know my email setup is working :)

Looking up your previous message I see:
> Having finally become fed up with "cat *.md5 | md5sum -c" enough to do
> something about it,

That just seemed like a perfect use of cat and pipes to me.  I would
not have thought twice about it.

As as far alternative methods go, if you can tolerate bashisms then
the following works.

  md5sum -c <(cat *.md5)

> I edited md5sum to allow "md5sum -c *.md5". sha1sum is also affected
> by way of using the same code.

But I have no opinion on the addition of the patch the code.  It seems
small enough and generally in the spirit of the utilities though.

Bob