On 16/10/10 20:37, Rimas Kudelis wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> > wrote: >> On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote: >>> 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: >> >> md5 seems to output a different format here. >> >> $ head -n1 /etc/motd >> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 26 05:45:12 UTC 2010 >> $ md5sum --version | head -n1 >> md5sum (GNU coreutils) 8.3 >> $ md5 file | tee t.md5 >> MD5 (file) = b85d6fb9ef4260dcf1ce0a1b0bff80d3 >> $ md5sum -c t.md5 >> file: OK >> >> Could you verify what md5 utility you're using exactly. > > > Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I wasn't the person producing the > checksum, so I had to ask too. The command used to produce the checksum is: > $ md5 -r <filename> > > FreeBSD release version is the same as yours. I've just tested the same > command with FreeBSD 6.2, and it only outputs one space too.
Ah right, md5 -r produces the alternate format. I suppose we could support a single space, by trying to open("*abc") after trying to open ("abc"). There is still an ambiguity if both files are present, though that is unlikely. I'll have a look. cheers, Pádraig.