This is more a feature request than a bug report. I just tried running the command md5sum --check disc.iso
and found that md5sum prints out a bunch of binary junk onto the terminal. I had to reset the terminal to clear things up. My mistake is obvious, I had intended to run md5sum --check disc.iso.md5 But, it seems to me that md5sum should have recognized that the input file had an invalid format and printed out an error message. In fact, I've received this error message when the md5 file was written in a slightly different dialect. So I'm a bit confused as to why binary junk isn't caught as having an invalid format. The version is 5.97 and was encountered on Ubuntu 7.10. Cheers, Jim _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
