On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:47:04 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55:57AM -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > are you sure it's not 'md5sum' ? ... that seems to be on all my > > GNU/Linux machines. > > > > Waitman Gobble > > San Jose California USA > > > > yup, you be right. altho we have no md5 [[does FBSD?]], > fedora does have md5sum. makes me wonder why this flavor didnt do at > least a symlink. oh well.
FreeBSD's md5 and GNU's md5sum don't behave the same. Specifically when reading from stdin (as in a pipeline) md5 sensibly just outputs the hash and a newline, whereas md5sum follows the hash with a "-" to indicate stdin as the "filename". _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
