> I don't understand the --check option in the manpage > It reads as: > > md5sum [OPTION] --check [FILE] > > and adds as a dwscription: > > -c, --check > check MD5 sums against given list > > The question is: How to tell the program where this list is.
The part of that line that says [FILE] signifies that [FILE] is to be replaced with the name of your check file. > It is not mentioned in the manpage, so I have to guess. I think you are looking right at it and not seeing it. > Indeed ftp-providers provide tarr-balls & bz2-balls with a accompaigning (is > that spelled correct?) file with a list of md5sums. accompanying > You can only do a visual comparison of the output of > md5sum-with-your-downloaded-file & the numbers given on the site of the > provider. > e.g. > http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/0.11.1.93/SOURCE/ The md5sum.txt file provided at that location is in standard form. You can use md5sum to check them against the downloaded files with the following command. md5sum --check md5sum.txt pan-0.11.1.93.tar.bz2: OK However, normally you would only download one of the files, either the tar.bz2 file or the tar.gz file but not both. They are the same file just compressed using different compression programs. [And gratuitous editorial remark is that it is silly for the author to use bz2 to get smaller compression and then take up more disk space by proving the gz version as well. Just pick one or the other!] > Hope you will provide a better manpage. As the man page noted you need to look at the 'info md5sum' documentation for the full documentation on the program. The man page is automatically generated from the --help output of the program with help2man making it a good quick syntax reference. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
