On 06/11/2026 17:05, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
md*sum, sha*sum insist on uppercase for tags if checksums where created with '--tag'. But some tools (including some versions of md*sum, sha*sum create tags lowercase.
md5sum (FD14-BonusCD.zip) = ... sha256sum (FD14-BonusCD.zip) = ... sha512sum (FD14-BonusCD.zip) = ...
md*sum, sha*sum insisting on uppercase tags report these as not properly formatted checksum lines. The same set of tools then has problems reading uppercase checksums -- they insist having lowercase letters. Would be nice if these tools would ignore case for tags and checksums. or at least have a flag making them ignore case for tags and/or checksums.
It's not just case. Notice the trailing "sum" also. What tools are these? I'm quite reluctant to complicate the parsing here. Note GNU,*BSD,macOS,openssl all use upper case (without redundant "SUM" suffix). thanks, Padraig
