md5sum with no argument expects standard input. If you had just typed
some stuff and hit ctrl-D, you would have seen a result. I will probably
not make it nhandle multiple arguments, you can just write a shell script
for that if you need it. In other words, it works, I thinkg.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Fergus Daly wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:32:48 +0100 (BST)
> From: Fergus Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tom's RTBT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Fergus Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] v.1.7.205
>
> Tom,
>
> I picked up v.1.7.205 from ftp.toms.net/rb just to have a go. I wonder
> what the status of this is ... it would be very irritating for you to
> receive criticism of a product that was neither believed nor intended to
> be totally tested and bug-free (well, buglet, at most). On the other hand,
> it might be offered for precisely that purpose. So: here goes:
>
> I was really keen to try md5sum. Querying man md5sum says that md5sum
> takes 0 or 1 argument. I tried all three of
>
> md5sum <Enter> hangs until press <Ctrl-C>
> md5sum <filename> <Enter> excellent
> md5sum <wildcard> <Enter> gives md5sum of one file in
> directory (earliest in some
> sense?)
>
> Maybe v.1.7.205 is not intended even to be available, in which case I am
> sincerely sorry for trespassing: on the other hand, if you invite and
> welcome comment (constructive) then I will only too happily play some more
> ...?
>
> Fergus
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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