Subject: Re: bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100

On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a little problem with md5sum.
> 
> A FreeBSD box generates an md5 sum of a file, which I'm later trying to
> check on a Linux box. The problem is that what FreeBSD's md5 outputs is
> slightly different from what Linux's md5sum expects, which makes md5sum
> complain. The difference is really trivial: md5 outputs one space
> between the sum and the file name, and md5sum outputs/expects two:

md5 seems to output a different format here.

$ head -n1 /etc/motd
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 26 05:45:12 UTC 2010
$ md5sum --version | head -n1
md5sum (GNU coreutils) 8.3
$ md5 file | tee t.md5
MD5 (file) = b85d6fb9ef4260dcf1ce0a1b0bff80d3
$ md5sum -c t.md5
file: OK

Could you verify what md5 utility you're using exactly.

cheers,
Pádraig.