tags 10043 notabug On 11/14/2011 08:56 AM, Castet JR wrote: > md5sum improvment suggestion > > Let assume this: > > find /lib -type f -name '*dll' |head -n5 >a0.a > > cat a0.a > > /lib/aspell-0.60/context-filter.dll > /lib/aspell-0.60/email-filter.dll > /lib/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.dll > /lib/aspell-0.60/sgml-filter.dll > /lib/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.dll > > > md5sum checks file integrity based on the md5 crc, of an single file. > md5sum /lib/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.dll > 0
That's not what happens with coreutils md5sum. Can you give the output of md5sum --version. I'm closing the bug for the moment. > md5sum checks file integrity based on the md5 crc, of an list of files . > md5sum -c a0.md5 > 0 > > > > md5sum apparently does not make an a0.md5 signature file from a list of files: > find /lib -type f -name '*dll' |head -n5 |while read f; do md5sum $f; done > >>a0.md > > -nasty- :-( BTW the above would start an md5sum process for each file, as well as using shell loops which are slow. The preferred idiom for this is: find /lib -type f -name '*dll' | xargs md5sum >a0.md5 cheers, Pádraig.
