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md5sum,sha*sum: make --quiet and --warn independent

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From: "Benno Schulenberg" <bensberg <at> justemail.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: [patch] making md5sum's --quiet and --warn independent, plus some
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:09:20 +0200

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Hi,

When the command 'md5sum -c longlist --quiet' would result
in the message "WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted",
then the subsequent command to find out which line is wrong
'md5sum -c longlist --quiet --warn' results in an unexpected
barrage of output.  It would be much nicer if --warn did not
undo the effect of --quiet, so the report of the misformatted
line does not get swamped in a long list of okays.  Attached
first patch makes this change.

(To be fully logical, the above probably has to be extended
to make --status always override --warn and --quiet and not
be overridden by them, otherwise the order '--warn --status
--quiet' would do something else than '--quiet --status 
--warn'.)

The second patch improves the description of '--warn'.  In
my opinion the option is always useful, not only when just a
few lines are misformatted -- and it would be handy if it were
the default.

By the way, why is there a short option for --warn, but not
for --quiet and --status?

Regards,

Benno

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[0001-md5sum-make-the-options-warn-and-quiet-orthogonal.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-md5sum-remove-strange-sentence-from-description-of-w.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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