Shish wrote: > There weren't any comments last time, and it didn't seem to get applied, > so I figured I'd try again with a patch against current CVS for easier > applying (rather than the last proper release). A rejection would be > favoured over silence, so at least I know my email setup is working :)
Looking up your previous message I see: > Having finally become fed up with "cat *.md5 | md5sum -c" enough to do > something about it, That just seemed like a perfect use of cat and pipes to me. I would not have thought twice about it. As as far alternative methods go, if you can tolerate bashisms then the following works. md5sum -c <(cat *.md5) > I edited md5sum to allow "md5sum -c *.md5". sha1sum is also affected > by way of using the same code. But I have no opinion on the addition of the patch the code. It seems small enough and generally in the spirit of the utilities though. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
