Hey. At least as of 9.1 (on Debian), it seems that cksum cannot --check a sums file in the untagged style:
$ touch a b $ cksum -a sha512 --tag * > sums.tagged $ cksum -a sha512 --untagged * > sums.untagged $ cat sums.tagged SHA512 (a) = cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e SHA512 (b) = cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e $ cat sums.untagged cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e a cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e b 3423932033d74d924ebe77f281d9694b1fa98103ed38b4634a06759c08b63a4fd96783dfaae8e1acedc53e36129d461a5757ccf3903f5bf64242cd78d305c473 sums.tagged $ cksum -c sums.tagged a: OK b: OK $ cksum -c sums.untagged cksum: sums.untagged: no properly formatted checksum lines found $ cksum -c sums.untagged --tag cksum: sums.untagged: no properly formatted checksum lines found $ cksum -c sums.untagged --untagged cksum: sums.untagged: no properly formatted checksum lines found $ Not sure whether it should try to auto-determine the format... I guess it would be possible, as long as no algorithm name every uses a-zA-Z0-9 as starting letter. But I rather tend to think it would be a bad idea to do so. However, it should be possibl to use --tag or --untagged to specify a format. Thanks, Chris.
