Jon Grant wrote:
Could an extra option be added to md5sum to only display file sums which
don't fail verification when checking?
Wouldn't that be 'only display sums that *DO* fail'? Especially given
your description below? One of these statements is wrong; please clarify
which you meant. :-)
For example the addition of this extra argument
-s, --silent
only report errors
Then we can check with md5sum -c -s
I would be happy to code this and submit a patch if you would be happy
with the feature?
While you're at it, how about a feature to also silently ignore files
that don't exist when checking against a checksum file? This would be
useful when downloading parts of a project (say, KDE) that provides a
monolithic list of checksums to easily get a 'success' or 'failure',
instead of having to parse out failures due to missing files.
I might be able to help out with said feature, so like you, Jon, I'm
soliciting comments...
--
Matthew
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