Vagrant Cascadian wrote on Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 06:18:04 +0200:
> On 2016-12-04, Valerie R Young wrote:
> > --- implicit 2016-12-03 17:05:39.000000000 -0500
> > +++ implicit 2016-12-03 17:57:02.682034599 -0500
> > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
> > : debian/$*/DEBIAN/md5sums
> > @rm -f debian/$*/DEBIAN/md5sums
> > @cd debian/$* && find * -path 'DEBIAN' -prune -o \
> > - -type f -exec md5sum {} >>DEBIAN/md5sums \;
> > + -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | LC_ALL=C sort >>DEBIAN/md5sums
>
> Not positive, but I'm guessing the "\;" should be at the end of the
> line:
No, it's correct where it is. It's part of the syntax to find(1)'s
-exec flag. Placing it at the end of the line would cause sort(1) to
operate on a file named ";".
It could be replaced with a «+» to invoke md5sum(1) fewer times:
«-type f -exec md5sum -- {} +»
Cheers,
Daniel
