Subject: Re: why doesn't NetBSD ship with md5sum or sha1sum?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/20/2006 20:00:29
Jeremy C. Reed --> netbsd-help (2006-04-20 09:45:48 -0700):
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why the BSD checksum tools don't offer an option similar
> > to the `-c <file>' option the coreutils tools have to check files
> > against a list of filename-checksum tuples. I think this is quite
> > useful...
> 
> Yes, it is useful.
> 
> As a similar feature, mtree(1) can do the same thing.

Sure, mtree is great. But if you download some files and the
corrresponding MD5 hash file it is no use...


Cheers, Jukka

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