> D> 2. Why doesn't md5(1) have a "check" option? Seems to me requiring a > D> manual inspection is error-prone at best, and makes scripting > D> unecessarily complicated. >
Would something like the attached patch be good? It adds a -c option for a string to check against. It prints "[failed]" if the string does not match the files md5 unless in -q mode. It also returns 2 to indicate md5 match failure for use in scripts.
md5-check.patch
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