Hi, On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:22:25AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > schoenfeld / in-medias-res wrote: > >>From 156d7e829da3ab9d895a275c2cd02e52388bcd0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenf...@debian.org> > > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:54:08 +0100 > > Subject: [PATCH] md5sum: Implemented --pedantic option to be more strict in > > verification mode > > > > * md5sum: Implemented a --pedantic option in --check mode, which lets md5sum > > bail out with a non-zero exit code, if one or more improperly formatted > > line > > is found. Feature request by Dan Jacobson. > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353911) > ... > - when checking two or more files, don't stop processing (exit) upon > an invalid line in the first. i.e., process all files before exiting.
Why? If md5sum exits with non-zero error code if a malformed line is found, IMHO it should exit at the first such line. If you want diagnostics, you can already use --check an get a warning for each malformed line. Regards, Erik
