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Re: minor md5sum output difference

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:17:27 +0200
Subject: Re: minor md5sum output difference
References: <20050810080250.A7A6083D0B@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

On Aug 10 18:02, Luke Kendall wrote:
> Cygwin md5sum puts a space then an asterisk in front of filenames, Linux
> version puts two spaces.
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> Linux$  echo | md5sum
> 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940  -
> Cywgin$ echo | md5sum
> 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 *-
> 
> I see "md5sum -c" accepts either two spaces or space plus asterisk.
> 
> Why the difference in output formats?  Does it matter?

`man md5sum' is rather instructive.


Corinna

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