Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> In article <20060420133321.GB2201@moray.salmi.ch> you 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...
> 
> Indeed, I wished we had these a few times before too.
> Well, I sat down and wrote it, and now you can do
> 
> 	md5 *.tgz >MD5
> 	md5 -c MD5
> 
> See
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/04/23/0017.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/04/23/0016.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/04/23/0021.html

Thanks a lot! IMHO this is a very useful addition.


Regards, Jukka

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