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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...
-- Matthew 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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