Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42F9B8A7.3020F323@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:19:51 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: minor md5sum output difference References: <20050810080250.A7A6083D0B@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Luke Kendall wrote: > Cygwin md5sum puts a space then an asterisk in front of filenames, Linux > version puts two spaces. The asterisk denotes whether the file was read in binary or text mode. Cygwin defaults to binary whereas linux defaults to text (but here the distinction is irrelevent.) You can use -b or -t as appropriate to change the behavior. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/