package: coreutils
version: 5.94-1
severity: normal
Both the manpage and the info page (man md5sum or info md5sum respectively)
for md5sum claim bevavior that does not seem to actually be the case:
The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. When checking,
the input should be a former output of this program. The default
mode is to print a line with checksum, a character indicating
type (`*' for binary, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE.
In reality:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ md5sum /usr/bin/md5sum
19bad9a675c6e33b811617d398c7fcf8 /usr/bin/md5sum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
I assume that md5sum is a binary, but there's no `*' indicating a binary
file.
Besides that, the way the manpages is formulated implies that there is
another mode besides that "default mode", but I couldn't find any hint what
mode this exactly is, neither how to activate them.
Thanks,
Thomas
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