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 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:17:27 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: minor md5sum output difference Message-ID: <20050810081727.GQ14783@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050810080250.A7A6083D0B@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050810080250.A7A6083D0B@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 10 18:02, Luke Kendall wrote: > Cygwin md5sum puts a space then an asterisk in front of filenames, Linux > version puts two spaces. > > E.g.: > > Linux$ echo | md5sum > 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 - > Cywgin$ echo | md5sum > 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 *- > > I see "md5sum -c" accepts either two spaces or space plus asterisk. > > Why the difference in output formats? Does it matter? `man md5sum' is rather instructive. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/