On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:36:30 -0000 "Martin Tournoij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', and it is > part of the base. > > On my system (6.2-RC2) > apropos md5 | grep sum: > md5(1), sha1(1), sha256(1), rmd160(1) - calculate a message-digest > fingerprint (checksum) for a file. > > Not sure why apropos md5 shows md5sum and gmd5sum (g for gnu?), maybe > it's from a port. > I also suspect that gmd5sum is a link to md5sum or vice versa.
The coreutils package installs the GNU utilities that form the basis of Linux distributions - grep, chmod etc. Since most of these names clash with the FreeBSD base system, the binaries all get renamed with a "g" prefix. The GNU docs still internally refer to them with their original names e.g. "man gmd5sum" will refer to md5sum _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
