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#19725
Correction for md5sum manual page
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Reported by: Terry Hoye <hoye <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:10:04 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
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Regarding GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011,
man md5sum states in part:
[quote]
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.[/quote]
I think I am correct in the following observatiion:
Taken literally, the second sentence is incorrect. The default mode has
two characters, often both spaces, between the two stringsets.
I don't think the algorithm works correctly with only one space between the stringsets.
Regards,TJ Hoye
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