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Re: md5sum extra option --silent request


From: mwoehlke
Subject: Re: md5sum extra option --silent request
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:07:05 -0500
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Jon Grant wrote:
Could an extra option be added to md5sum to only display file sums which
don't fail verification when checking?

Wouldn't that be 'only display sums that *DO* fail'? Especially given your description below? One of these statements is wrong; please clarify which you meant. :-)

For example the addition of this extra argument

-s, --silent
              only report errors

Then we can check with md5sum -c -s

I would be happy to code this and submit a patch if you would be happy
with the feature?

While you're at it, how about a feature to also silently ignore files that don't exist when checking against a checksum file? This would be useful when downloading parts of a project (say, KDE) that provides a monolithic list of checksums to easily get a 'success' or 'failure', instead of having to parse out failures due to missing files.

I might be able to help out with said feature, so like you, Jon, I'm soliciting comments...

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Matthew
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