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[md5sum] does not accept |
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Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:24:31 +0300 |
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Hi,
I have a little problem with md5sum.
A FreeBSD box generates an md5 sum of a file, which I'm later trying to
check on a Linux box. The problem is that what FreeBSD's md5 outputs is
slightly different from what Linux's md5sum expects, which makes md5sum
complain. The difference is really trivial: md5 outputs one space
between the sum and the file name, and md5sum outputs/expects two:
address@hidden:~/Pootle/tmp$ md5sum -c catkeys.zip
md5sum: catkeys.zip: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
address@hidden:~/Pootle/tmp$ md5sum -c catkeys.zip.md5
md5sum: catkeys.zip.md5: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
address@hidden:~/Pootle/tmp$ md5sum catkeys.zip
f653761af3137c8a631284b390bae102 catkeys.zip
address@hidden:~/Pootle/tmp$ cat catkeys.zip.md5
f653761af3137c8a631284b390bae102 catkeys.zip
I don't know which format is the "right" one, but could md5sum perhaps
be fixed to support md5's checksum files too?
Thanks!
Rimas Kudelis
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Re: bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:54:17 +0100 |
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On 09/14/2011 11:43 PM, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> 2011.09.14 17:12, Jim Meyering rašė:
>> Good point. I don't see a way to make GNU md5sum handle this automatically
>> and safely. However, that's not a big deal: it's easy to convert from one
>> format to the other using sed or perl. I'd be inclined to mark this
>> "wontfix" (because we cannot) or simply to close it.
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> I think you could also implement this as a commandline switch, right?
Right. But that complicates the interface unnecessarily I think.
I'm going to apply the attached to give automatic support,
with the aforementioned caveat that BSD -r format checksums
where the _first_ file starts with a ' ' or '*' are not supported.
In that very unlikely case, one can always preprocess with sed 's/ / /'
cheers,
Pádraig.
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