On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:07:59AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > ** Binary input and output are now implemented more consistently. > These changes affect only platforms like MS-DOS that distinguish > between binary and text files.
Unfortunately, these changes affect GNU/Linux, too. [...] > md5sum and sha1sum now obey the -b or --binary option, even if > standard input is a terminal, and they no longer report files to be > binary if they actually read them in text mode. On GNU/Linux, O_BINARY is 0 and default mode is binary. As result, by default a character indicating type is now "*" instead of previous " ", and this change breaks third party scripts which relay on old md5sum/sha1sum output format. -- ldv
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