On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:15:39PM +0000, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> 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]
> > 20000714.1034GMT
> >
Fergus, perhaps you are coming in to this from Mess-DOS/Windows. If so,
then you need to know that expansion of wild cards is done by the shell in
Unix (including Linux), but by the program in Mess-DOS/Windows. I think
tomsrtbt uses ash, which is a minimal shell, and which may not do wild
card expansion (test it to see). I just checked the ash man page, and see
no reference to the term "wild" as in "wild card".
Possibly the shell is expanding wild cards, but md5sum is only picking up
the first one for some reason, like lazy programmers. If so, then the
problem lies with the md5sum maintainers, not Tom. All he does, by and
large, is package the programs.
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