bug#21757: md5sum: Accept different line endings in .md5 files

2015-10-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 25/10/15 18:05, MI wrote: > Currently, "md5sum -c" gives a cryptic error when the line endings in the > .md5 file > are not LF (\x0A). It would be helpful if md5sum would just "do the right" > and > understand the 2 other newline standards. > > .md5 files created on non-Unix systems may use

bug#21757: md5sum: Accept different line endings in .md5 files

2015-10-25 Thread MI
Currently, "md5sum -c" gives a cryptic error when the line endings in the .md5 file are not LF (\x0A). It would be helpful if md5sum would just "do the right" and understand the 2 other newline standards. .md5 files created on non-Unix systems may use line endings other than LF . Windows uses