On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:40:26 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 07 Dec 2006 08:33:32 NZDT +1300, Ben Devine wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:29:06 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'm having a bit of bother with Debian's md5sum program. At first I >> I good start would be to tell us what version of Debian. > > The latest, 3.1. But I have reason to believe that all Debian versions > are affected so it's not a factor. Obviously "Debian" is aware of the > issue or they wouldn't ship GNU md5sum under some other name in some > other package. Note in the man page
md5sum does not accept standard options like --help. Despite this being a slightly longer solution. You could perhaps do something like this. echo foo > /tmp/md5-test-file; md5sum /tmp/md5-test-file /etc/debian_version is a helpful way you could detect if it was running on a debian system. -- Thanks, Ben Devine
