cksum entire dir??

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:39:46PM +0100, RW wrote:
> 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".
o


	ah shit.  well, I spent at least ten years porting stuff--everything
	F'ing thing...    So I'll  have to find the md5 src and port it.
	
	then follow karl's example.  and others'.  [[[ See, this is just one
	example of taken proven code and adding something and breaking 
	something ... ]]]

	
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