On 11/04/2011 06:37 PM, Rodney Rieck wrote: > Hello, > > > > This is about the Linux program "sum" that computes checksums and > number of blocks in a file. I'm not writing about a program error I've > found -- I am writing about how the output from the program is > formatted. > > If you type in something like this: sum -r * > > and if there are multiple files present in the current directory, you > will get output like this for each file it checks: > > [check_sum] [number_of_blocks] [file_name] > > If though on the command line you change the "*" to a single file name, > the output is the same except that it doesn't print/display the > "[file_name]", I guess because that seems redundant because the file > name is already known and was typed in on the command line.
I consider that a bug. freebsd always outputs the file name for example. This means that if you do `find -type f | xargs sum`, the last entry could be without a file name. Now we can't change without consideration for backwards compat, though I'd be inclined to fix this inconsistency. cheers, Pádraig.
