Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't see why GNU textutils upstream hasn't been contacted for their > opinion. Seeing if they're willing to change textutil's behaviour from > something that seems to have no particular benefits, would seem like > the easiest way to avoid gratuitious incompatabilities with other distros.
I contacted him back in July and this is what he had to say: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting complaints from Debian users regarding the output of > > md5sum < file, which is of the form: > > > > d47fe6e8023a49af77e5885275d7242f - > > > > The complainants would prefer to see: > > > > d47fe6e8023a49af77e5885275d7242f > > > > which is analogous to the behaviour cksum and wc. > > > > What is your view on this? > > Consistency with other programs would be nice, > but md5sum --check must parse that same output, and > its output should stay consistent with that of other > (historical) md5sum implementations. > > It's not hard to remove those three trailing characters. > E.g. just pipe the output through tr -d ' -' or sed 's/ .*//' > > Hmm... Debian unstable's /usr/bin/md5sum can't handle > the use of `-' as a name for stdin: > > $ echo a |md5sum > x > $ echo a |/usr/bin/md5sum -c x > /usr/bin/md5sum: can't open - > Segmentation fault > [Exit 139 (SIGSEGV)] > > But the one from textutils can: > > $ echo a |md5sum.textutils -c x > -: OK -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
