Mike Black wrote: > md5sum would be a good thing to use to store checksums on files for forensics and > chain-of-evidence usage. > So putting it in a pipe like from the SHADOW utils would be great to store the > validation sums for the tcpdump logs.
If in the future you would be so kind as to word wrap your messages at some reasonable column such as 72 it would be most appreciated. > But md5sum can't output to a file -- only to stdout. But stdout is trivially redirected to files. Perhaps you were unaware of the shell's ability to redirect output? Try this out. md5sum file1 file2 > output > Perhaps we can add a -f/--file switch to store the sum? Is there a circumstance where redirection of stdout to a file is not possible? This is the typical way to do things on unix-like operating systems. > Then we can tee any output to md5sum. The 'tee' command as you mention also can redirect stdout to a file. md5sum file1 file2 | tee output Hope that helps. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
