I'd like to point out that the output of md5sum may not necessarily be /quite/ as easy to parse as you suspect: check the output of md5sum when the filename itself includes a backslash or newline (it will begin the line with a backslash). This is by design (broken, IMO, but too established now to change).
There has been some recent discussion on this topic on the coreutils mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-03/msg00181.html It appears that a patch for this behavior has been submitted to a branch, and awaits further testing. My guess would be that it will be present in the next release. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Micah Cowan Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- md5sum can't read md5 files with CRLF line terminators https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84467 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
