Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I am trying to write shell scripts so they work on any distro. For that, > --version and --help are irrelevant, use of "-" can be avoided. When > creating a checksum for stdin, that md5sum correctly writes "-" as > filename (probably as per RFC), but for checking the data from stdin, > the checksum must be read from a file - and it promptly complains > md5sum: can't open - > i.e. it can't find the file named "-". D'oh.
cat /etc/debian_version 3.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ md5sum blahblahblah[Ctrl+G] 8c3c1a60b5c10f3faacd15ae3b1db6fb - cat test.txt | md5sum a40ed13005e08841d25cf5a6f3f11ca1 - Seems like Sarge's md5sum reads from stdin just fine :P
