Hi there,
When you use md5sum to check some file (e.g. msdosformattedfile.md5), I have some problems when the file is a DOS text file.
$ md5sum -c msdosformattedfile.md5 : No such file or directory : FAILED open or read : No such file or directory : FAILED open or read : No such file or directory : FAILED open or read etc. etc. etc.
When I copy the contents of the file using some text editor into a newly created (Unix-formatted?) file, the output is correct.
$ md5sum -c newfile.md5 file1.dat: OK file2.dat: OK file3.dat: OK file4.dat: OK etc. etc. etc.
I'm using version: md5sum (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Ulrich Drepper and Scott Miller.
Probably some problems with linefeed characters, I don't know.
Three years ago, Mark Lehrer already mentioned the same problem on http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2001-03/msg00028.html
"Obviously, a Unix expert could strip off the line feed with dos2unix or equivalent, but a lot of relatively new GNU/Linux users have trouble with this. I am tired of dealing with it, and I don't like to see users include a DOS formatted and Unix formatted file with the same contents... it's silly."
Hope you can solve this :-). Thanks in advance!
see you later, Ralph
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