Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <001801c26c5d$81045ba0$0101a8c0@albion> From: "Cliff Hones" To: , References: <000701c26c5c$992ab860$b17b1f3e AT leper> Subject: Re: md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option" Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:53:54 +0100 Organization: Aonix Europe Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > I'm getting a strange error message from md5sum: the command has worked fine > in the past. It looks like this: > > ~> md5sum `find /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop` > md5sum: invalid option -- M > Try `md5sum --help' for more information. > ~> > > There's no problem with md5sum `find .` for example. I can't see anything > odd about my desktop, or files on it or under it. In particular, nothing > beginning with a upper-case M. Does it have a file name with an embedded hyphen, maybe? Something like: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop/Data -Modified.lnk -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/