On 09/14/2011 11:43 PM, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> 2011.09.14 17:12, Jim Meyering rašė:
>> Good point. I don't see a way to make GNU md5sum handle this automatically and safely. However, that's not a big deal: it's easy to convert from one format to the other using sed or perl. I'd be inclined to mark this "wontfix" (because we cannot) or simply to close it. 
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> I think you could also implement this as a commandline switch, right?

Right. But that complicates the interface unnecessarily I think.

I'm going to apply the attached to give automatic support,
with the aforementioned caveat that BSD -r format checksums
where the _first_ file starts with a ' ' or '*' are not supported.
In that very unlikely case, one can always preprocess with sed 's/ /  /'

cheers,
Pádraig.