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authorLuther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com>2015-11-22 21:47:59 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-11-23 12:58:10 +0000
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md5sum,sha*sum: add --ignore-missing for checking a subset of files
* doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Document the new option. * src/md5sum.c (digest_file): Return an empty digest to indicate a missing file. (digest_check): Don't fail or output status given an empty checksum. (usage): Document the new option. (main): Process and validate the new option. * tests/misc/md5sum.pl: Add new test cases. * NEWS: Mention the new feature. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15604
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@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
+ md5sum now supports the --ignore-missing option to allow
+ verifying a subset of files given a larger list of checksums.
+ This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
printf now supports the '%q' format to print arguments in a form that
is reusable by most shells, with non-printable characters escaped
with the POSIX proposed $'...' syntax.