md5sum

[Matthias Andree]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:09:10 +0200
> Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
>
>> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm not familiar with md5.  Is it the same as md5sum?  The command is
>> >used in script src/tests/t.encoding.  Try changing 'md5sum' to 'md5'
>> >and running "t.encoding -v".  If there's no complaint, the test has
>> >succeeded.
>> 
>> :$ t.encoding 
>> :Results are in ./encoding.20050702.  Remove it after testing.
>> :./encoding.20050702/md5sum.ref ./encoding.20050702/md5sum.out differ: char 34, line 1
>> 
>> pi
>
> Evidently, md5 gives different results than does md5sum.  The
> difference might be the value computed or the formatting of the
> output.  Running "head encoding.2050702/md5sum.*" will show what's
> expected and what you have.

md5 formats differently, say:

md5(filename) = 1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

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Matthias Andree