Re: Question about md5sum

[Eric Blake]

> I have a question about md5sum 5.2.1.

5.2.1 is several years old; I would consider upgrading.  The latest
stable version is 5.96, and a 5.97 will probably arrive within the next
month or so.

> For example, I'm in deirectory /home/arseny and I want to get hash of
> file foo.bar. I have to write md5sum /home/arseny/foo.bar. But I
> consider that it would be more natural to look file firstly in current
> directory. For example command would be
>     cd /home/arseny
>     md5sum foo.bar

That command works just fine for me.  I don't know why you
are having problems with it, but what you describe is already
possible with md5sum.

-- 
Eric Blake