Jim Meyering wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Two years ago I complained about the untranslatability of the warnings >> that md5sum prints when it has encountered unexpected things: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-09/msg00168.html >> >> Jim asked to come up with a change that doesn't remove information. >> I've finally gotten around to making this -- see the attached patch. >> In addition to read failures and checksum failures, md5sum now alerts >> the user to the number of misformatted checksum lines. It prints this >> line also when '--warn' is not given, because it is so important. > > Thanks for following up. > I've applied your patch after adjusting the log and a failing test, > then added two more tests to cover the new types of output lines. > > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] md5sum: print a summary warning for improperly formatted > lines > > And remove the now-superfluous totals from the other two warnings, > so the plurals will also work in other languages than English. > > * src/md5sum.c (digest_check): Change as above. > * tests/misc/md5sum (check-quiet2): Adjust accordingly.
FYI, I'm marking this as closed.
